CVE-2026-6695
CVE-2026-6695: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare vendor sources and published fix guidance.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityMedium5.5
Medium [CVE-2026-6695] remote code execution via crafted paa file
CVE-2026-6695Source published Source updated
A flaw was found in GIMP. A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PAA (Paint Shop Pro Array) image file. This vulnerability, a heap-based out-of-bounds write in the decode_lzss() function of the PAA file format plugin, allows data to be written beyond the intended memory buffer. This could lead to heap metadata corruption and potentially enable the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems where GIMP is installed and used to process untrusted image files are affected. 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-805. Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE. Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise…
- Affected products in this advisory
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
1 more entries in the full advisory.
- 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
- To mitigate this issue, users should avoid opening .paa files from untrusted sources. If GIMP is not required, consider removing the `gimp` package to eliminate the attack vector. Removing the `gimp` package may also remove other desktop-related packages that depend on it.
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