CVE-2026-4887

6.1 MEDIUM

A flaw was found in GIMP

Published: 2026-03-26 · Last updated: 2026-06-15

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 6.1 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE: CWE-193

Affected products

Vendor	Product
gimp	gimp

Description

A flaw was found in GIMP. This issue is a heap buffer over-read in GIMP PCX file loader due to an off-by-one error. A remote attacker could exploit this by convincing a user to open a specially crafted PCX image. Successful exploitation could lead to out-of-bounds memory disclosure and a possible application crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4887
[Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16484
[Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17533
[Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19362
[Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20552
[Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20553
[Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20554
[Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20691
[Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25899
[Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25901
[Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25907
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4887
[Vendor advisory]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2451669
[Exploit reference]https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/15960

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