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CVE-2026-6694 (GCVE-0-2026-6694)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-03 04:05 – Updated: 2026-08-03 15:37

Title

Gimp: gimp file-png plugin: denial of service via oversized apng trns chunk

Summary

A flaw was found in GIMP's file-png plugin. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) image containing an oversized tRNS chunk. This can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow (CWE-121), causing the file-png plugin to crash and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the user.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Assigner

redhat

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6694	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459779	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

4 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Date Public

2026-04-20 16:43

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Bronson Yen (Calif.io) for reporting this issue.

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GHSA-QV8F-FVHH-GFQP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-03 06:31 – Updated: 2026-08-03 06:31

Details

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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