RHSA-2026:11806 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for gdk-pixbuf2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced 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 gdk-pixbuf2 packages provide an image loading library that can be extended by loadable modules for new image formats. It is used by toolkits such as GTK+ or clutter.

Security Fix(es):

• gdk-pixbuf: gdk-pixbuf: Denial of Service via heap-based buffer overflow when processing a specially crafted JPEG image (CVE-2026-5201)

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 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2453291 - CVE-2026-5201 gdk-pixbuf: gdk-pixbuf: Denial of Service via heap-based buffer overflow when processing a specially crafted JPEG image

CVEs

• CVE-2026-5201

References

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