CVE-2026-27168 (GCVE-0-2026-27168)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-20 23:34 – Updated: 2026-02-25 21:27
VLAI?
Title
SAIL: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Sail-codecs-xwd
Summary
SAIL is a cross-platform library for loading and saving images with support for animation, metadata, and ICC profiles. All versions are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow through the XWD parser's use of the bytes_per_line value. The value os read directly from the file as the read size in io->strict_read(), and is never compared to the actual size of the destination buffer. An attacker can provide an XWD file with an arbitrarily large bytes_per_line, causing a massive write operation beyond the buffer heap allocated for the image pixels. The issue did not have a fix at the time of publication.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| HappySeaFox | sail |
Affected:
<= 0.9.10
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Nomenclature
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