CVE-2026-2239: Gimp

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in GIMP. Heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability exists in the fread_pascal_string function when processing a specially crafted PSD (Photoshop Document) file. This occurs because the buffer allocated for a Pascal string is not properly null-terminated, leading to an out-of-bounds read when strlen() is subsequently called. Successfully exploiting this vulnerability can cause the application to crash, resulting in an application level Denial of Service.

Affected products

• Gimp Gimp: version 3.2.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2026-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.