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CVE-2018-3838

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2018-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An exploitable information vulnerability exists in the XCF image rendering functionality of Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL2_image-2.0.2. A specially crafted XCF image can cause an out-of-bounds read on the heap, resulting in information disclosure. An attacker can display a specially crafted image to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

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

References

• 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-2018-0520
• 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-2018-0520

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