7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2017-7875

Published: 14/04/2017 Updated: 24/05/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #860367 feh: CVE-2017-7875 Package: src:feh; Maintainer for src:feh is Debian PhotoTools Maintainers <pkg-phototools-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 08:33:01 UTC Severity: normal Tags: fixed-upstream, patch, security ...