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Advisory severityMedium5.5Red Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2026-66757] signed integer overflow in file-sgi (sgi-lib) causes the plugin to crash on RLE SGI images

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-66757 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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CVE-2026-66757
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat LinuxRed Hat Enterprise Linux
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Summary

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. Due to this reason, this flaw has been rated with a moderate severity.

Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-190.

Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.

Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: gimp.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative. Check it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 28 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions

No fixed release is recorded yet. That does not prove no patch exists. Confirm against the vendor advisory.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 28 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation
  • To mitigate this vulnerability, do not open SGI files from untrusted sources with GIMP.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 28 days ago·verify at source

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