CVE-2026-96545

medium

Assigned by CNA: redhat

Published 2026-09-23 · Modified 2026-09-23

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CVSS v3

4.4

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.4

Description

An out-of-bounds heap read flaw was found in GIMP's TIM image loader. When a user opens a crafted 4bpp TIM image that causes promotion to an RGBA layer, the file-tim plug-in allocates an undersized row buffer but processes it using the larger RGBA row size. This can copy adjacent heap contents into the decoded image and may crash the plug-in.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

44%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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