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CVE-2018-7553

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the pcxLoadRaster function of in_pcx.cpp in sam2p 0.49.4. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0
• Sam2P Project Sam2P: 0.49.4

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891527
• https://github.com/pts/sam2p/issues/32
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00004.html
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891527
• https://github.com/pts/sam2p/issues/32
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00004.html

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