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CVE-2017-2888

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-10-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists when creating a new RGB Surface in SDL 2.0.5. A specially crafted file can cause an integer overflow resulting in too little memory being allocated which can lead to a buffer overflow and potential code execution. An attacker can provide a specially crafted image file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.04
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Libsdl Simple Directmedia Layer: 2.0.5

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101215
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00031.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4143-1/
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0395
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101215
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00031.html
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4143-1/
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0395

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