CVE-2026-42170
CVE-2026-42170: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare vendor sources and published fix guidance.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityHigh7.8
High [CVE-2026-42170] GIMP DDS plug-in heap-based buffer overflow via BPP mismatch in load_layer (ddsread.c)
CVE-2026-42170Source published Source updated
GIMP DDS plug-in heap-based buffer overflow via BPP mismatch in load_layer() (ddsread.c). Red Hat rates this important (CVSS 7.8). Weakness: CWE-131. Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
- Related products — impact not confirmed
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Source-reported affected versions
- Affected-version details not available in this record.
- Source-reported fixed versions
- No fixed-version detail extracted. This does not mean no fix exists.
- Mitigation guidance
- Users should avoid opening untrusted DirectDraw Surface (DDS) image files with GIMP. As a general security practice, only process files from trusted sources. If GIMP is not essential, consider removing the `gimp` package to eliminate this attack vector.
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