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Permalink CVE-2026-40492
9.8 CRITICAL
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): NETWORK
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): NONE
  • User interaction (UI): NONE
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): HIGH
  • Integrity impact (I): HIGH
  • Availability impact (A): HIGH
created 4 days, 20 hours ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion 4 days, 20 hours ago
SAIL has heap buffer overflow in XWD decoder — bits_per_pixel vs pixmap_depth type confusion in byte-swap

SAIL is a cross-platform library for loading and saving images with support for animation, metadata, and ICC profiles. Prior to commit 36aa5c7ec8a2bb35f6fb867a1177a6f141156b02, the XWD codec resolves pixel format based on `pixmap_depth` but the byte-swap code uses `bits_per_pixel` independently. When `pixmap_depth=8` (BPP8_INDEXED, 1 byte/pixel buffer) but `bits_per_pixel=32`, the byte-swap loop accesses memory as `uint32_t*`, reading/writing 4x the allocated buffer size. This is a different vulnerability from the previously reported GHSA-3g38-x2pj-mv55 (CVE-2026-27168), which addressed `bytes_per_line` validation. Commit 36aa5c7ec8a2bb35f6fb867a1177a6f141156b02 contains a patch.

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sail
  • ==< 36aa5c7ec8a2bb35f6fb867a1177a6f141156b02

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