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CVE-2026-108093: Gimp: gimp: denial of service via null pointer dereference in xcf simulation parasite loading

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-09 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

A flaw was found in GIMP. The XCF loader processes image-simulation-intent and image-simulation-bpc parasites without ensuring the parasite data is present before dereferencing it. Opening a specially crafted XCF file with a zero-size simulation parasite can cause a NULL pointer dereference and crash the GIMP application.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: all versions

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-108093
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2548607

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