vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-7875): feh vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 14, 2017
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

Description

In wallpaper.c in feh before v2.18.3, if a malicious client pretends to be the E17 window manager, it is possible to trigger an out-of-boundary heap write while receiving an IPC message. An integer overflow leads to a buffer overflow and/or a double free.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
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