Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sdl_image  (opens in a new tab)


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3.48% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-SDLIMAGE-10078297
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed1 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-3977  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the XCF image rendering functionality of SDL2_image-2.0.3. A specially crafted XCF image can cause a heap overflow, resulting in code execution. An attacker can display a specially crafted image to trigger this vulnerability.