🛡️ CVE-2026-40919 — enterprise-linux

🟡 CVSS 6.1 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-787 NVD
6.1
CVSS Score
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Description

A flaw was found in GIMP. This vulnerability, a buffer overflow in the file-seattle-filmworks plugin, can be exploited when a user opens a specially crafted Seattle Filmworks file. A remote attacker could leverage this to cause a denial of service (DoS), leading to the plugin crashing and potentially impacting the stability of the GIMP application.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-40919 is classified as CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write. Data is written past the end or before the start of a buffer, corrupting whatever is stored there.

Affected software

CVE-2026-40919 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • enterprise-linux
  • gimp

Timeline and source

Published on 15 April 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

access.redhat.com
bugzilla.redhat.com

CVE-2026-40919 on other distributions

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CWE CWE-787
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-04-15
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux — —
gimp — —

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