CVE-2026-40917: Gimp

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in GIMP. This vulnerability, a heap buffer over-read in the `icns_slurp()` function, occurs when processing specially crafted ICNS image files. An attacker could provide a malicious ICNS file, potentially leading to application crashes or information disclosure on systems that process such files.

Affected products

• Gimp Gimp: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2026-04-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.