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CVE-2026-118475: Eog: eye of gnome: buffer overrun when parsing malicious png files with non-standard iccp chunk

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 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: 2026-10-30 · updated 2026-10-30
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

A flaw was found in Eye of GNOME. When parsing a specially crafted PNG image containing malformed color profile metadata, the application fails to validate chunk boundaries while searching for a null terminator. An attacker could trick a user into opening a malicious image, causing the application to read past the allocated buffer. This issue can lead to an application crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS), or potentially expose sensitive memory contents.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: all versions

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-118475
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2562716
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/eog/-/commit/04e4f313421eacb9fc529781542bb7fb81a3cd1a

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