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DEBIAN-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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:14 gimp

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References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org