MEDIUM 5.5 NVD

CVE-2026-6694

A flaw was found in GIMP's file-png plugin. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) image containin

A flaw was found in GIMP's file-png plugin. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) image containing an oversized tRNS chunk. This can lead to a stack-based buffer overflow (CWE-121), causing the file-png plugin to crash and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the user.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6694
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459779

Published: 2026-08-03 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-08-04

This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 was published on 2026-08-03 via NVD.

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