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CVE-2026-66759: Gimp: out-of-bounds read in file-icns plugin causes information disclosure or crash on crafted icns images
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2026-07-27 · updated 2026-08-24
- Weakness: CWE-125
Description
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.
Affected products
- GIMP: 3.0.8, 3.2.4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50817
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-66759
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2507557
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/16528
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/16528
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