PGV-2676810

Disclosed on October 17, 2026 (updated October 17, 2026)

Vulnerability Overview

PGV-2676810 is a category 1 vulnerabilty that affects debian/gimp source, forky, versions < 3.2.6-1

CVSS Score: 6.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H)

Risk Assessment

The risk assessment shows that this vulnerability is exlpoited by a compromised user. A legitimate user who unknowingly triggers exploitation of this vulnerability through normal interaction.

The impact is contained to the application. Exploitation remains confined to the application and cannot affect the host environment or external systems.

The threat damage is caused by a denial of service. Exploitation can completely deny access to the application, resulting in a full outage.is caused by a data breach (limited). Exploitation does not provide access to data beyond what the user is already authorized to access.

Vulnerability Details

A flaw was found in GIMP. An attacker can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) or potentially disclose sensitive memory contents by convincing a user to open or preview a specially crafted Bohemia Interactive (PAA) texture file. Due to an integer overflow when calculating image dimensions during file decompression, the application allocates an undersized memory buffer. Subsequent processing reads memory past the buffer boundary, terminating the plug-in process unexpectedly.

Common Weakness Enumerations

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Additional References

Your Risk Profile

Network Exposure	External Accessable from the public internet
Access Interface	WebBrowser Primarily web-based applications
Service Outage	Disruptive Operations would be impacted
Data Breach	Disruptive Operations would be impacted
Data Tampering	Disruptive Operations would be impacted
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Additional Identifiers

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-62438