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CVE-2017-2900

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

An exploitable integer overflow exists in the PNG loading functionality of the Blender open-source 3d creation suite version 2.78c. A specially crafted '.png' file can cause an integer overflow resulting in a buffer overflow which can allow for code execution under the context of the application. An attacker can convince a user to use the file as an asset via the sequencer in order to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Blender: 2.78c
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00011.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4248
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0407
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00011.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4248
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0407

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