A flaw was found in GIMP. An attacker can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) or potentially disclose sensitive memory contents by convincing a user to open or preview a specially crafted Bohemia Interactive (PAA) texture file. Due to an integer overflow when calculating image dimensions during file decompression, the application allocates an undersized memory buffer. Subsequent processing reads memory past the buffer boundary, terminating the plug-in process unexpectedly.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 affected —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 unknown —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 affected —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 affected —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 affected —

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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-62438 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2554456 cve-icon cve-icon
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/16313 cve-icon cve-icon
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Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:15:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in GIMP. An attacker can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) or potentially disclose sensitive memory contents by convincing a user to open or preview a specially crafted Bohemia Interactive (PAA) texture file. Due to an integer overflow when calculating image dimensions during file decompression, the application allocates an undersized memory buffer. Subsequent processing reads memory past the buffer boundary, terminating the plug-in process unexpectedly.
Title Gimp: gimp: paa integer overflow out-of-bounds read
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Weaknesses CWE-190
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
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-16T21:56:18.452Z

Reserved: 2026-07-14T11:54:34.302Z

Link: CVE-2026-62438

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-16T22:17:24.307

Modified: 2026-10-16T22:17:24.307

Link: CVE-2026-62438

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Updated: 2026-10-16T23:45:13Z

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