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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-96546 (CVE-2026-96546)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-09-23 19:19 – Updated: 2026-09-30 21:39 – Source website

Details

A one-byte out-of-bounds heap read flaw was found in GIMP's uncompressed DDS image loader. When a user opens an uncompressed DDS image, the file-dds plug-in performs an unconditional one-byte look-ahead after processing the final pixel. This may cause the plug-in to crash if the byte immediately following the pixel buffer is inaccessible; no information disclosure or code execution has been demonstrated.

Severity

2.5 (Low)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-96546	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-96546	REPORT
	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16802	REPORT
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96546	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539601	REPORT

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CVE-2026-96546 (GCVE-0-2026-96546)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-23 18:29 – Updated: 2026-09-25 17:56

Title

Gimp: gimp: one-byte out-of-bounds heap read in the uncompressed dds loader

Summary

Severity

2.5 (Low)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-25 17:55 UTC

CWE

CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read

Assigner

redhat redhat root Scorecard

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96546	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539601	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16802

Impacted products

5 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
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

2026-09-22 05:59

Credits

Upstream acknowledges Jim Alves-Foss as the original reporter.

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