CVE-2008-2426

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Imlib 2 (aka imlib2) 1.4.0 allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a PNM image with a crafted header, related to the load function in src/modules/loaders/loader_pnm.c; or (2) a crafted XPM image, related to the load function in src/modules/loader_xpm.c.

Affected products

Carsten Haitzler Imlib2: 1.4.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30401
http://secunia.com/advisories/30485
http://secunia.com/advisories/30572
http://secunia.com/advisories/30727
http://secunia.com/advisories/31982
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-25/advisory/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020146
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1594
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-03.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:123
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492739/100/0/threaded

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