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CVE-2021-38714

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-08-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

In Plib through 1.85, there is an integer overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability is found in ssgLoadTGA() function in src/ssg/ssgLoadTGA.cxx file.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux: 7.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35, 36, 37
• Plib Project Plib: through 1.8.5

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00000.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7HT3BKNAXLDY246UPUNRSBPGGVANRDOU/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OTVSAKNCEYVMVAURQSB5GNA2MWL4XDPH/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U5SML6W6Z2B6THT76VPUKUFYQJABODFU/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/plib/bugs/55/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00000.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7HT3BKNAXLDY246UPUNRSBPGGVANRDOU/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OTVSAKNCEYVMVAURQSB5GNA2MWL4XDPH/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U5SML6W6Z2B6THT76VPUKUFYQJABODFU/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/plib/bugs/55/

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