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CVE-2026-112261 — Red Hat

HIGH

CVE-2026-112261 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.8) Use After Free vulnerability. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.

A flaw was found in GIMP. Opening a crafted XCF that selects a path and then fails to load that path can cause a use-after-free in the main process, leading to a crash and potentially…

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Exploitation data as of Oct 19, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Description

A flaw was found in GIMP. Opening a crafted XCF that selects a path and then fails to load that path can cause a use-after-free in the main process, leading to a crash and potentially arbitrary code execution.

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vulnerability

  1. Detect

    Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).

  2. Remediation status

    No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2026-112261 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    Constrain what reaches the vulnerable code: limit the size and shape of untrusted input, isolate the affected component in a sandboxed or least-privileged process, and enable the platform's memory-safety mitigations (ASLR, stack protector, hardened allocator) so an out-of-bounds access is more likely to fail closed than to be exploitable.

Fixing This On Your OS

If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.

Red HatImportant

This Important flaw applies to the XCF vectors / selected-path model introduced around 2.99.14 (2022-10).

Workaround published by Red Hat
Avoid opening untrusted XCF files in GIMP. If GIMP is unused, remove the gimp package.
Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2026-112261 (CC BY 4.0)

Frequently Asked Questions

A flaw was found in GIMP. Opening a crafted XCF that selects a path and then fails to load that path can cause a use-after-free in the main process, leading to a crash and potentially arbitrary code execution.
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