CVE-2026-62439
HighCVSS 7.0Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs
Summary
GIMP contains an integer overflow in the file-pvr plug-in when calculating memory buffer sizes for image dimensions. Opening or previewing a specially crafted PowerVR (.pvr) file can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or a Denial of Service (DoS) via an application crash.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can trick a user into opening a malicious .pvr file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the user's context or application crash. The risk covers confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Recommendation
Update GIMP to a version containing the fix. Avoid opening .pvr files from untrusted sources until the update is applied.
Other vulnerabilities in GIMP
See all- CVE-2026-62438Medium
A flaw was found in GIMP where an attacker can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) or potentially disclose sensitive memory contents by convincing a user to open or preview a specially crafted Bohemia Interactive (PAA) texture file. Due to an integer overflow when calculating image dimensions during file decompression, the application allocates an undersized memory buffer.
- CVE-2017-17789High
In GIMP 2.8.22, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in read_channel_data in plug-ins/common/file-psp.c.
- CVE-2017-17787High
In GIMP 2.8.22, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the read_creator_block handler in plug-ins/common/file-psp.c.
- CVE-2017-17786High
In GIMP 2.8.22, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in ReadImage in plug-ins/common/file-tga.c, related to an unexpected bits-per-pixel value for an RGBA image.
- CVE-2017-17785High
In GIMP 2.8.22, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the fli_read_brun function in plug-ins/file-fli/fli.c.
- CVE-2017-17784High
In GIMP 2.8.22, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in load_image in plug-ins/common/file-gbr.c, related to mishandling of UTF-8 data.
- CVE-2016-4994High
A use-after-free vulnerability in the xcf_load_image function in xcf-load.c in GIMP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted XCF file.
- CVE-2026-108093Medium
A flaw was found in GIMP. The XCF loader processes image-simulation-intent and image-simulation-bpc parasites without ensuring the parasite data is present before dereferencing it. Opening a specially crafted XCF file with a zero-size simulation parasite can cause a NULL pointer dereference and crash the GIMP application.
- CVE-2026-106067Medium
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in GIMP’s Hot color filter plug-in. For very large images, a pixel buffer is allocated using overflowing 32-bit width * height (and related) arithmetic while the filter’s pixel access path uses the true image size, after integer overflow in the allocation size.
- CVE-2026-106066Medium
GIMP's raw data export plug-in contains a heap-based buffer overflow. When exporting very large images, sizing based on overflowing width * height * bytes-per-pixel can allocate far less memory than GEGL reads or writes during export, leading to a buffer overflow.
Original NVD description (English source)
A flaw was found in GIMP. An integer overflow occurs in the file-pvr plug-in when calculating memory buffer sizes for image dimensions. By tricking a user into opening or previewing a specially crafted PowerVR (.pvr) file, an attacker can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or a Denial of Service (DoS) via an application crash.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS