Upstream information

CVE-2026-112258 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Analysis

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (Red Hat)
Base Score 7.8
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 9
  • gimp >= 2:3.0.4-4.el9_8.15
  • gimp-libs >= 2:3.0.4-4.el9_8.15
 Patchnames:
RHSA-2026:93975 (i686,x86_64)

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Nov 4 21:58:40 2026
CVE page last modified: Sun Nov 8 11:58:25 2026