CVE-2026-6694
mediumA flaw was found in GIMP's file-png plugin.
Vendor / product: Redhat — enterprise linux
A flaw was found in GIMP's file-png plugin. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) image containing an oversized tRNS chunk. This can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow (CWE-121), causing the file-png plugin to crash and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the user.
CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-08-03 06:16
Modified: 2026-11-05 22:18
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 hour ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-05 22:23 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
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-2026-6694
Vendor advisory: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459779
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6694 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459779 secalert@redhat.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-05 22:23 UTC · record ↗