CVE-2026-96546

low

Description

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.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16802

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539601

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96546

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 2.5

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

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00115