CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7875
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
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.
Affected configurations
• feh project feh (<= 2.18.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97689 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://feh.finalrewind.org/ Patch, Product
- https://github.com/derf/feh/commit/f7a547b7ef8fc8ebdeaa4c28515c9d72e592fb6d Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00021.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-08 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97689 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://feh.finalrewind.org/ Patch, Product
- https://github.com/derf/feh/commit/f7a547b7ef8fc8ebdeaa4c28515c9d72e592fb6d Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00021.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-08 security.gentoo.org