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CVE-2017-7875

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

In wallpaper.c in feh before v2.18.3, if a malicious client pretends to be the E17 window manager, it is possible to trigger an out-of-boundary heap write while receiving an IPC message. An integer overflow leads to a buffer overflow and/or a double free.

Affected products

• Feh Project Feh: through 2.18.2

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97689
• https://feh.finalrewind.org/
• https://github.com/derf/feh/commit/f7a547b7ef8fc8ebdeaa4c28515c9d72e592fb6d
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00021.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-08
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97689
• https://feh.finalrewind.org/
• https://github.com/derf/feh/commit/f7a547b7ef8fc8ebdeaa4c28515c9d72e592fb6d
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00021.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-08

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