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CVE-2018-3839

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An exploitable code execution 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 write on the heap, resulting in code execution. 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
• Starwindsoftware Starwind Virtual San: v8-build12533, v8-build12658, v8-build12859

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.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20191008-0002/
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0521
• 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.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20191008-0002/
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0521

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