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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-14448: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 24, 2018
Added
Jun 13, 2018
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the XCF image rendering functionality of SDL2_image-2.0.2. A specially crafted XCF image can cause a heap overflow resulting in code execution. An attacker can display a specially crafted image to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-sdl2_image
Title
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