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.
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Avoid opening untrusted XCF files in GIMP until an update is available. If GIMP is unused, remove the gimp package.
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| 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. | |
| Title | Gimp: gimp: use-after-free in xcf loader via prop_linked and prop_selection on channels | |
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Redhat enterprise Linux |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-416 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-19T21:37:20.179Z
Reserved: 2026-10-19T13:14:38.053Z
Link: CVE-2026-112258
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-19T22:17:05.543
Modified: 2026-10-19T22:17:05.543
Link: CVE-2026-112258
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Updated: 2026-10-20T00:30:07Z
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