---
id: CVE-2026-62438
title: 'Gimp: gimp: paa integer overflow out-of-bounds read'
summary: >-
  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
  int…
severity: medium
cvss: 6.1
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H'
cvssSource: cna
cwe:
  - CWE-190
vendor: Red Hat
product: gimp
affected:
  - gimp (all versions)
  - gimp
  - gimp (all versions)
  - 'gimp:2.8/gimp (all versions)'
  - gimp (all versions)
published: '2026-10-16'
updated: '2026-10-16'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-16T21:56:18.452Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-62438'
references:
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-62438'
  - url: 'https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2554456'
    label: RHBZ#2554456
  - url: 'https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/16313'
tags:
  - cve.org
ingestedAt: '2026-10-16T22:54:45.857Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Affected

- `gimp (all versions)`
- `gimp`
- `gimp (all versions)`
- `gimp:2.8/gimp (all versions)`
- `gimp (all versions)`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.