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CVE-2026-80101

medium

A flaw was found in the file-xwd plugin in GIMP.

Vendor / product: Gimp — gimp

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.

CVSS
4.4
4.4 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-08-25 21:18
Modified: 2026-11-06 01:17
NVD status: Modified
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
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-2026-80101
Vendor advisory: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16583
Vendor advisory: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16583
Patch / mitigation: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16583
Patch / mitigation: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16583

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-06 01:24 UTC · record ↗

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