The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:5437 advisory.

    The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image composition and editing program. GIMP provides a     large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and     anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo.

    Security Fix(es):

    * gimp: GIMP: Remote Code Execution via uninitialized memory in PGM file parsing (CVE-2026-2044)

    * gimp: GIMP: Remote Code Execution via out-of-bounds write in XWD file parsing (CVE-2026-2045)

    * gimp: GIMP: Remote Code Execution via ICO File Parsing Vulnerability (CVE-2026-0797)

    * gimp: GIMP: Remote Code Execution via XWD file parsing vulnerability (CVE-2026-2048)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : gimp:2.8 (RHSA-2026:5437)

high Nessus Plugin ID 303362

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