CVE-2008-0544

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the IMG_LoadLBM_RW function in IMG_lbm.c in SDL_image before 1.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted IFF ILBM file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Sdl Image: 1.2.6

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207933
http://secunia.com/advisories/28640
http://secunia.com/advisories/28752
http://secunia.com/advisories/28830
http://secunia.com/advisories/28850
http://secunia.com/advisories/28869
http://secunia.com/advisories/29542
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0061
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1493
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200802-01.xml
http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/viewvc.cgi/trunk/SDL_image/IMG_lbm.c?r1=3341&r2=3521
http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/viewvc.cgi/trunk/SDL_image/IMG_lbm.c?revision=3521&view=markup

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