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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-2887: sdl2_image Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-2887: sdl2_image Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/11/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/14/2018
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the XCF property handling functionality of SDL_image 2.0.1. A specially crafted xcf file can cause a stack-based buffer overflow resulting in potential code execution. An attacker can provide a specially crafted XCF file to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-sdl2_image

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