A flaw was found in GIMP. Opening a crafted XCF with a malformed text-layer parasite can cause a heap out-of-bounds read, disclosing adjacent heap data into layer text and causing denial of service.

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Avoid opening untrusted XCF files in GIMP. If GIMP is unused, remove the gimp package.

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Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in GIMP. Opening a crafted XCF with a malformed text-layer parasite can cause a heap out-of-bounds read, disclosing adjacent heap data into layer text and causing denial of service.
Title Gimp: gimp: heap out-of-bounds read in xcf text-layer parasite parsing
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Weaknesses CWE-125
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-19T19:24:49.017Z

Reserved: 2026-10-19T13:14:46.797Z

Link: CVE-2026-112260

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-19T20:17:52.970

Modified: 2026-10-19T20:17:52.970

Link: CVE-2026-112260

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-19T20:30:03Z

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