CVE-2026-112258
A flaw was found in GIMP
- Risk score
- 47/100
- CVSS
- 7.8 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.1%
- Published
- 19 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- A flaw was found in GIMP. The XCF loader can leave a dangling pointer in the linked-channels list when a linked channel is later destroyed via a selection property. Opening a crafted XCF file can cause a use-after-free in the main GIMP process, leading to a crash and potentially arbitrary code execution.
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.8 high
References
Original description
A flaw was found in GIMP. The XCF loader can leave a dangling pointer in the linked-channels list when a linked channel is later destroyed via a selection property. Opening a crafted XCF file can cause a use-after-free in the main GIMP process, leading to a crash and potentially arbitrary code execution.
Last activity 19 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.