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CVE-2026-27168
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-02-21T00:16:16.640 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:26:47.027

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.

Affected products

sail — sail

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References

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