RHSA-2026:98462 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for gimp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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: gimp: out-of-bounds write in lighting effects plugin via crafted preset file (CVE-2026-90947)
• gimp: gimp: heap-based buffer overflow in ICO loader via integer overflow in embedded PNG dimensions (CVE-2026-90948)
• gimp: integer overflow when generating a thumbnail preview for a PSD file (CVE-2026-92248)
• gimp: gimp: out-of-bounds write in GIMPressionist plugin via crafted preset file (CVE-2026-97185)

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 for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2533005 - CVE-2026-90947 gimp: gimp: out-of-bounds write in lighting effects plugin via crafted preset file
• BZ - 2533008 - CVE-2026-90948 gimp: gimp: heap-based buffer overflow in ICO loader via integer overflow in embedded PNG dimensions
• BZ - 2534282 - CVE-2026-92248 gimp: integer overflow when generating a thumbnail preview for a PSD file
• BZ - 2539980 - CVE-2026-97185 gimp: gimp: out-of-bounds write in GIMPressionist plugin via crafted preset file

CVEs

• CVE-2026-90947
• CVE-2026-90948
• CVE-2026-92248
• CVE-2026-97185

References

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