CVE-2026-96546

Reference list NVD curates from the CNA record, vendor advisories, and third-party reports. The tag chips below are NVD's analyst-assigned categories.

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96546 secalert@redhat.com
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539601 secalert@redhat.com
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items/16802 secalert@redhat.com

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-96546.json.

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          "time": "2026-09-22T19:59:54.000Z",
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      ],
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          "value": "Avoid importing uncompressed DDS images from untrusted sources. No application-level mitigation that preserves processing of untrusted DDS files is known."
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