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Description

A flaw was found in GIMP. This vulnerability, a heap buffer over-read in the `icns_slurp()` function, occurs when processing specially crafted ICNS image files. An attacker could provide a malicious ICNS file, potentially leading to application crashes or information disclosure on systems that process such files.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-15 | Published 2026-04-15 | Updated 2026-04-28 | Assigner redhat




MEDIUM: 5.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

Out-of-bounds Read

Product status

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affected

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affected

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affected

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affected

Timeline

2026-04-15:Reported to Red Hat.
2026-04-15:Made public.

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank mzfr for reporting this issue.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40917 vdb-entry

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458746 (RHBZ#2458746) issue-tracking

cve.org (CVE-2026-40917)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-40917)

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