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CVE-2026-6384

high

A flaw was found in gimp.

Vendor / product: Gimp — gimp

A flaw was found in gimp. This buffer overflow vulnerability in the GIF image loading component's `ReadJeffsImage` function allows an attacker to write beyond an allocated buffer by processing a specially crafted GIF file. This can lead to a denial of service or potentially arbitrary code execution.

CVSS
7.8
7.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-04-15 20:16
Modified: 2026-11-04 23:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 39 minutes ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-04 23:38 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

gimp / gimp all versions
redhat / enterprise_linux 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6384
Vendor advisory: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458749
Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6384
Vendor advisory: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458749

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-04 23:38 UTC · record ↗

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