Medium [CVE-2026-96545] out-of-bounds heap read in the 4bpp TIM image loader
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-96545; related products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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Summary
out-of-bounds heap read in the 4bpp TIM image loader. Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 4.4).
Weakness: CWE-125.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; and 2 more.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat package: gimp.
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation checklist
- Do not open TIM image files from untrusted sources. No application-level mitigation that preserves processing of untrusted TIM files is known.
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