CVE-2026-96546
2.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
A one-byte out-of-bounds heap read flaw was found in GIMP's uncompressed DDS image loader. When a user opens an uncompressed DDS image, the file-dds plug-in performs an unconditional one-byte look-ahead after processing the final pixel. This may cause the plug-in to crash if the byte immediately following the pixel buffer is inaccessible; no information disclosure or code execution has been demonstrated.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
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Weaknesses
- CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
Workarounds
Avoid importing uncompressed DDS images from untrusted sources. No application-level mitigation that preserves processing of untrusted DDS files is known.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96546
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539601
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16802
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