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CVE-2026-5201

high

A flaw was found in the gdk-pixbuf library.

Vendor / product: Gnome — gdk-pixbuf

A flaw was found in the gdk-pixbuf library. This heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability occurs in the JPEG image loader due to improper validation of color component counts when processing a specially crafted JPEG image. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw without user interaction, for example, via thumbnail generation. Successful exploitation leads to application crashes and denial of service (DoS) conditions.

CVSS
7.5
7.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-03-31 09:16
Modified: 2026-10-29 15:56
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 51 minutes ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-29 16:13 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

gnome / gdk-pixbuf <2.44.6
redhat / ai_inference_server <3.3.3
redhat / enterprise_linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 9.8, 10.2
redhat / enterprise_linux_aus 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
redhat / enterprise_linux_els 7.0
redhat / enterprise_linux_eus 8.4, 9.4, 9.6, 10.0, 9.8, 10.2
redhat / enterprise_linux_server_aus 8.2, 8.4
redhat / enterprise_linux_server_tus 8.8
redhat / enterprise_linux_tus 8.6, 8.8
redhat / enterprise_linux_update_services_for_sap_solutions 8.6, 8.8, 9.0, 9.2
redhat / enterprise_linux_for_els 9.8, 10.2
redhat / enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems 9.0_s390x, 9.8_s390x, 10.0_s390x, 10.2
redhat / enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems_els 9.8, 10.2
redhat / enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems_eus 9.8, 10.2
redhat / enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian 9.0, 10.0, 10.2
redhat / enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian_els 9.8, 10.2
redhat / enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian_eus 9.8, 10.2
redhat / enterprise_linux_server_for_power_little_endian_update_services_for_sap_solutions 9.8

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-122

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/-/issues/304

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-29 16:13 UTC · record ↗

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