CVE-2026-27168

SAIL: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Sail-codecs-xwd

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Feb 20, 2026
Updated
Feb 25, 2026
Reserved
Feb 18, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
sailHappySeaFox
  • <= 0.9.10Affected

References

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