FKIE_CVE-2026-6694

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-03 06:16 - Updated: 2026-09-04 13:45
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6694Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459779Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat enterprise_linux 6.0
redhat enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0
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