Red Hat Fixes GIMP Image-Parsing Flaws on RHEL 9.2 E4S
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Red Hat addresses 17 GIMP vulnerabilities in image parsing and related input handling, including potential code execution. Confirm the exact supported stream and installed build, apply the corresponding erratum, validate operations, and retain evidence.
Confirm Scope And Apply The Supported Remediation
What to do now: Record GIMP builds, plugins, image-ingestion workflows and sources of externally supplied images. Match the documented versions, enabled features and attack prerequisites to the deployment before assigning applicability. Install the applicable signed update from the entitled Red Hat repository, preserving the package epoch, architecture and support stream. Close and restart GIMP after the package update. Verify representative image imports, exports and required plugins; retain installed and active versions, test results and change records.
Last verified: 2026-11-02 UTC. Recheck the authoritative advisory and supported distribution channel before changing production.
Scope And Authority
| Product scope | GIMP on RHEL 9.2 AppStream E4S |
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| Advisory | RHSA-2026:93589 |
| CVEs | CVE-2026-18301, CVE-2026-18302, CVE-2026-18303, CVE-2026-18304, CVE-2026-18305, CVE-2026-18306, CVE-2026-18307, CVE-2026-42169, CVE-2026-58379, CVE-2026-58380, CVE-2026-58384, CVE-2026-59090, CVE-2026-66758, CVE-2026-90947, CVE-2026-90948, CVE-2026-92248, CVE-2026-97185 |
| Authoritative release date | 2026-11-02T09:58:04Z |
| Authority revision date | 2026-11-02T11:06:15Z (latest authority revision) |
| Affected versions | Advisory-listed packages or images before the applicable fixed build on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.2). |
| Fixed version | gimp-2:2.99.8-4.el9_2.7.src |
| CVSS base score | 7.3-8.4 (CVSS v3.1; CVE-specific) |
| CVSS severity | High |
| Exploitation status | The cited authority does not state that this issue is being maliciously exploited.; no exploitation claim is inferred. |
Authority-Specific Scope And Version Evidence
| RHSA-2026:93589 | Released 2026-11-02T09:58:04Z; revised 2026-11-02T11:06:15Z. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.2). Fixed source-package families: gimp-2:2.99.8-4.el9_2.7.src. CVSS 7.3-8.4 (CVSS v3.1; CVE-specific); High. Vendor rating: Important. |
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What Changed
Red Hat addresses 17 GIMP vulnerabilities in image parsing and related input handling, including potential code execution.
What To Validate Now
- Inventory. Record GIMP builds, plugins, image-ingestion workflows and sources of externally supplied images.
- Establish applicability. Match the documented versions, enabled features and attack prerequisites to the deployment before assigning applicability.
- Remediate. Install the applicable signed update from the entitled Red Hat repository, preserving the package epoch, architecture and support stream. Close and restart GIMP after the package update.
- Validate. Verify representative image imports, exports and required plugins; retain installed and active versions, test results and change records.
- Retain evidence. Preserve asset and owner identifiers, the applicability decision, before-and-after versions, change approval, installation output, validation results, and any exception or rollback record.
Operational Cautions
Stage the desktop update and treat untrusted images as an exposure path; a vendor rating does not establish exploitation. CVSS values are per-CVE authority scores, not one score assigned to the entire update.
Evidence To Retain
- Exact product, release stream, package or application version, enabled feature, environment, and accountable owner.
- UTC timestamps, authority revision, approved change record, installer or package-manager output, and resulting version.
- Relevant logs and monitoring evidence, test results, exceptions, compensating controls, and rollback decisions.
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Authoritative References
Correction policy: If the authority changes affected versions, fixed versions, severity, exploitation information, mitigations, or required action, TechGeeks will update this notice and its verification date.
