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CVE-2026-66759

high

A flaw was found in the file-icns plugin in GIMP.

Vendor / product: Gimp — gimp

A flaw was found in the file-icns plugin in GIMP. When applying a decompressed mask during ICNS image processing, the plugin reads from the mask data buffer without verifying if the cursor exceeds the allocated resource size. If a crafted file contains a truncated mask resource, the icns_decompress function continues reading past the bounds of the buffer. This out-of-bounds read vulnerability results in information disclosure of heap contents, where memory contents are leaked as alpha channel pixel values, or a crash leading to a denial of service if unmapped memory is accessed.

CVSS
7.1
7.1 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-07-27 19:17
Modified: 2026-11-05 23:16
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 43 minutes ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-05 23:24 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

gimp / gimp 3.0.8, 3.2.4
redhat / enterprise_linux 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-66759
Vendor advisory: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2507557
Vendor advisory: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/16528
Vendor advisory: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/16528

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-05 23:24 UTC · record ↗

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