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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40917 (CVE-2026-40917)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-04-15 20:16 – Updated: 2026-05-14 11:40 – Source website

Details

A flaw was found in GIMP. This vulnerability, a heap buffer over-read in the icns_slurp() function, occurs when processing specially crafted ICNS image files. An attacker could provide a malicious ICNS file, potentially leading to application crashes or information disclosure on systems that process such files.

Severity

5.0 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.1 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-40917	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40917	REPORT
	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/16056	REPORT

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CVE-2026-40917 (GCVE-0-2026-40917)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-15 18:59 – Updated: 2026-07-02 17:16

Title

Gimp: gimp: application crashes or information disclosure via crafted icns image files

Summary

A flaw was found in GIMP. This vulnerability, a heap buffer over-read in the `icns_slurp()` function, occurs when processing specially crafted ICNS image files. An attacker could provide a malicious ICNS file, potentially leading to application crashes or information disclosure on systems that process such files.

Severity

5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-04-15 19:24 UTC

CWE

CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read

Assigner

redhat redhat root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40917	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458746	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

4 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Date Public

2026-04-15 18:41

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank mzfr for reporting this issue.

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