Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-66757

medium Nessus Plugin ID 330240

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- A flaw was found in the file-sgi plugin in GIMP. When processing an RLE-compressed SGI image, the plugin allocates memory for a row table. The image header dimensions (ysize and zsize) are read as 16-bit unsigned integers. If a crafted file sets both dimensions to their maximum value (65535), the multiplication ysize * zsize overflows the standard 32-bit int boundary before being passed to calloc.
This integer overflow issue results in undefined behavior, aborting the plugin and causing a denial of service. (CVE-2026-66757)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 330240

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_66757.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 7/28/2026

Updated: 7/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-66757

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gimp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gimp-devel-tools, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gimp-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gimp-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gimp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pygobject2-codegen, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pygobject2-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pygobject2-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pygobject2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pygtk2-codegen, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pygtk2-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pygtk2-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pygtk2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python2-cairo-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python2-cairo, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python2-pycairo, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gimp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gimp-devel-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gimp-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gimp-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gimp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pygobject2-codegen, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pygobject2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pygobject2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pygobject2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pygtk2-codegen, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pygtk2-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pygtk2-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pygtk2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-cairo-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-cairo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-pycairo

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-66757

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