CVE-2017-14440

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the ILBM image rendering functionality of SDL2_image-2.0.2. A specially crafted ILBM image can cause a stack overflow resulting in code execution. An attacker can display a specially crafted image to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
libsdl-org SDL_image: 2.0.2

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00005.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-17
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4177
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4184
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0489
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00005.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-17
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4177
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4184
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0489

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