CVE-2026-79902
Gimp: stack vla size underflow denial of service in seattle
A flaw was found in the Seattle FilmWorks plugin in GIMP. When processing a specially crafted SFW image file, the plugin allocates a Variable-Length Array (VLA) on the stack without integer overflow checks, causing an unbounded stack allocation. This issue leads to an application crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
5.5
Gimp: stack vla size underflow denial of service in seattle
A flaw was found in the Seattle FilmWorks plugin in GIMP. When processing a specially crafted SFW image file, the plugin allocates a Variable-Length Array (VLA) on the stack without integer overflow checks, causing an unbounded stack allocation. This issue leads to an application crash, resulting in a denial of service.
- Record
CVE-2026-79902- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-190
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2026-66425
5.5
A flaw was found in the Seattle FilmWorks plugin in GIMP. When processing a specially crafted SFW image file, the plugin allocates a Variable-Length Array (VLA) on the stack without integer overflow checks, causing an unbounded stack allocation. This issue leads to an application crash, resulting in a denial of service.
- Record
EUVD-2026-66425- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-7m98-q7f5-f6rr
5.5
A flaw was found in the Seattle FilmWorks plugin in GIMP. When processing a specially crafted SFW...
A flaw was found in the Seattle FilmWorks plugin in GIMP. When processing a specially crafted SFW image file, the plugin allocates a Variable-Length Array (VLA) on the stack without integer overflow checks, causing an unbounded stack allocation. This issue leads to an application crash, resulting in a denial of service.
- Record
GHSA-7m98-q7f5-f6rr- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-190
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
5.5
A flaw was found in the Seattle FilmWorks plugin in GIMP. When processing a specially crafted SFW image file, the plugin allocates a Variable-Length Array (VLA) on the stack without integer overflow checks, causing an unbounded stack allocation. This issue leads to an application crash, resulting in a denial of service.
- Record
CVE-2026-79902- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-190
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2026-79902
5.5
A flaw was found in the Seattle FilmWorks plugin in GIMP. When processing a specially crafted SFW image file, the plugin allocates a Variable-Length Array (VLA) on the stack without integer overflow checks, causing an unbounded stack allocation. This issue leads to an application crash, resulting in a denial of service.
- Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2026-79902- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVOESA-2026-3802
7.8
gimp security update
The GIMP is an image composition and editing program, which can be used for creating logos and other graphics for Web pages. The GIMP offers many tools and filters, and provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, subpixel imaging and antialiasing, and conversions, together with multilevel undo. The GIMP offers a scripting facility, but many of the included scripts rely on fonts that we cannot distribute.
Security Fix(es):
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in GIMP (Image Processing Software). The issue is categorized as CWE-120 (Buffer Overflow). The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. This vulnerability impacts confidentiality, integrity, and availability.(CVE-2026-18307)
A flaw was found in GIMP's file format plugins, including those for PSD and PAA files. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted image file. This could lead to unexpected application behavior or other potential security impacts without requiring further user interaction.(CVE-2026-59091)
A flaw was found in the file-pcx plugin in GIMP, affecting 32-bit builds only. When processing a PCX image file, the plugin calculates memory allocation sizes based on the image dimensions and the number of color planes. If a crafted file sets the number of planes to 4 alongside sufficiently large dimensions, the calculation exceeds the 32-bit integer limit and overflows, resulting in an undersized heap-based buffer allocation. This integer overflow issue results in a heap-based buffer overflow when the plugin subsequently writes image data into the undersized buffer, causing memory corruption, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or a denial of service.(CVE-2026-78465)
A flaw was found in the file-pix (ESM) plugin in GIMP. When processing a specially crafted PIX image file, the plugin allocates a Variable-Length Array (VLA) on the stack without proper bounds checking, causing an unbounded stack allocation followed by a 21-byte stack over-read. This can result in a denial of service due to stack exhaustion and a limited information disclosure of stack memory contents into an intermediate file.(CVE-2026-78475)
A flaw was found in the Seattle FilmWorks plugin in GIMP. When processing a specially crafted SFW image file, the plugin allocates a Variable-Length Array (VLA) on the stack without integer overflow checks, causing an unbounded stack allocation. This issue leads to an application crash, resulting in a denial of service.(CVE-2026-79902)
A flaw was found in the file-xwd plugin in GIMP. When processing a specially crafted XWD image file, the plugin validates the image width and bytes-per-line parameters independently rather than ensuring their combined values are consistent with the allocated buffer size. This incorrect validation leads to improper bounds checking, causing a heap out-of-bounds read. This issue can result in an application crash, leading to a denial of service, or a limited information disclosure of heap memory contents into the produced image.(CVE-2026-80101)
- Record
OESA-2026-3802- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2026-79902
5.5
A flaw was found in the Seattle FilmWorks plugin in GIMP. When processing a specially crafted SFW image file, the plugin allocates a Variable-Length Array (VLA) on the stack without integer overflow checks, causing an unbounded stack allocation. This issue leads to an application crash, resulting in a denial of service.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2026-79902- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2026:11771-1 No score
gimp-3.2.6-1.1 on GA media
These are all security issues fixed in the gimp-3.2.6-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.
- Record
openSUSE-SU-2026:11771-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
gimpDebian:14 |
before 3.2.6-1, plus listed versions 3.0.4-33.0.4-43.0.4-53.0.4-63.0.4-6.1 Show 14 moreShow less3.0.4-6.23.0.6-13.2.0-13.2.0~RC2-13.2.0~RC2-23.2.0~RC2-33.2.0~RC2-3.13.2.0~RC2-3.23.2.0~RC2-3.33.2.0~RC3-13.2.2-13.2.4-13.2.4-23.2.4-3 |
3.2.6-1 |
gimpopenEuler:24.03-LTS-SP4 |
before 3.2.4-8.oe2403sp4 | 3.2.4-8.oe2403sp4 |
gimpUbuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 2.8.14-1ubuntu22.8.14-1.2ubuntu12.8.16-1ubuntu12.8.16-1ubuntu1.12.8.16-1ubuntu1.1+esm12.8.16-1ubuntu1.1+esm22.8.16-1ubuntu1.1+esm3 |
None known |
gimpUbuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 2.8.20-12.8.20-1.12.8.20-22.8.22-12.8.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm12.8.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm22.8.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm3 |
None known |
gimpUbuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 2.10.8-22.10.14-22.10.14-2build12.10.14-2ubuntu12.10.14-3 Show 5 moreShow less2.10.18-12.10.18-1ubuntu0.12.10.18-1ubuntu0.1+esm12.10.18-1ubuntu0.1+esm22.10.18-1ubuntu0.1+esm3 |
None known |
gimpUbuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 2.10.24-22.10.28-12.10.30-12.10.30-1build12.10.30-1ubuntu0.12.10.30-1ubuntu0.1+esm12.10.30-1ubuntu0.1+esm22.10.30-1ubuntu0.1+esm3 |
None known |
gimpUbuntu:Pro:24.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 2.10.34-12.10.36-12.10.36-22.10.36-3build22.10.36-3build3 Show 4 moreShow less2.10.36-3ubuntu0.24.04.12.10.36-3ubuntu0.24.04.1+esm12.10.36-3ubuntu0.24.04.1+esm22.10.36-3ubuntu0.24.04.1+esm3 |
None known |
gimpUbuntu:26.10 |
All versions, plus listed versions 3.2.2-13.2.4-13.2.4-23.2.4-33.2.6-1 |
None known |
gimpUbuntu:26.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 3.0.4-6.13.0.4-6.23.0.6-13.2.0~RC2-23.2.0~RC2-3 Show 7 moreShow less3.2.0~RC2-3.13.2.0~RC2-3.23.2.0~RC2-3.33.2.0~RC3-13.2.0-13.2.2-13.2.2-1ubuntu0.26.04.1 |
None known |
gimpopenSUSE:Tumbleweed |
before 3.2.6-1.1 | 3.2.6-1.1 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2026-79902 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) in Gimp, published August 26, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.27%, the 18th percentile. Fixed in gimp 3.2.6-1.
References
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-79902
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523512
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16582
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79902
github.com/advisories/GHSA-7m98-q7f5-f6rr
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-79902
Show 17 moreShow less
openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bulletins/detail?id=openEuler-SA-2026-3802
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-18307
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59091
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78465
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78475
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80101
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-79902
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-79902
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18301
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18302
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18306
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18309
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-78465
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-78475
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-79902
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-80101
suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-82330