CVE-2026-79902
mediumA flaw was found in the Seattle FilmWorks plugin in GIMP.
Vendor / product: Gimp — gimp
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.
CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-08-26 14:17
Modified: 2026-11-06 01:17
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 hour ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-06 01:24 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 ≤3.3.1
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-2026-79902
Vendor advisory: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16582
Vendor advisory: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16582
Patch / mitigation: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16582
Patch / mitigation: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16582
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-79902 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523512 secalert@redhat.com
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16582 secalert@redhat.com
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16582 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-06 01:24 UTC · record ↗