diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf/CVE-2026-5201.patch b/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf/CVE-2026-5201.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..97e0dddb62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf/CVE-2026-5201.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+From 6cce9311e70b969cbcc6e3e1e74ae1756ed02d5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
+Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:21:56 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] jpeg: Reject unsupported number of components
+
+This condition was already checked for incremental loading.
+This commit adds the same check in the nonincremental
+code path.
+
+Closes: #304
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/-/commit/6cce9311e70b969cbcc6e3e1e74ae1756ed02d5b]
+CVE: CVE-2026-5201
+Signed-off-by: Vijay Anusuri <vanusuri@mvista.com>
+---
+ gdk-pixbuf/io-jpeg.c | 12 ++++++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/io-jpeg.c b/gdk-pixbuf/io-jpeg.c
+index 9ee1d21..d419812 100644
+--- a/gdk-pixbuf/io-jpeg.c
++++ b/gdk-pixbuf/io-jpeg.c
+@@ -625,6 +625,18 @@ gdk_pixbuf__real_jpeg_image_load (FILE *f, struct jpeg_decompress_struct *cinfo,
+ 	cinfo->do_fancy_upsampling = FALSE;
+ 	cinfo->do_block_smoothing = FALSE;
+ 
++	/* Reject unsupported component counts */
++	if (cinfo->output_components != 3 && cinfo->output_components != 4 &&
++	    !(cinfo->output_components == 1 &&
++	      cinfo->out_color_space == JCS_GRAYSCALE)) {
++		g_set_error (error,
++			     GDK_PIXBUF_ERROR,
++			     GDK_PIXBUF_ERROR_CORRUPT_IMAGE,
++			     _("Unsupported number of color components (%d)"),
++			     cinfo->output_components);
++		goto out;
++	}
++
+ 	pixbuf = gdk_pixbuf_new (GDK_COLORSPACE_RGB, 
+ 				 cinfo->out_color_components == 4 ? TRUE : FALSE, 
+ 				 8,
+-- 
+2.43.0
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.42.12.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.42.12.bb
index 7c58fe1e1d..2f0de425b5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.42.12.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf_2.42.12.bb
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNOME_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${MAJ_VER}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz \
            file://0001-meson.build-allow-a-subset-of-tests-in-cross-compile.patch \
            file://CVE-2025-7345.patch \
            file://CVE-2025-6199.patch \
+           file://CVE-2026-5201.patch \
            "
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b9505b3445b9a7e48ced34760c3bcb73e966df3ac94c95a148cb669ab748e3c7"
