RHSA-2025:9308 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the gimp:2.8 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image composition and editing program. GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo.

Security Fix(es):

• gimp: Multiple use after free in XCF parser (CVE-2025-48798)
• gimp: Multiple heap buffer overflows in TGA parser (CVE-2025-48797)
• gimp: GIMP ICO File Parsing Integer Overflow (CVE-2025-5473)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2368557 - CVE-2025-48798 gimp: Multiple use after free in XCF parser
• BZ - 2368558 - CVE-2025-48797 gimp: Multiple heap buffer overflows in TGA parser
• BZ - 2370867 - CVE-2025-5473 gimp: GIMP ICO File Parsing Integer Overflow

CVEs

• CVE-2025-5473
• CVE-2025-48797
• CVE-2025-48798

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important