CVE-2026-27168
SAIL is a cross-platform library for loading and saving images with support for animation, metadata, and ICC profiles. All versions are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow through the XWD parser's use of the bytesperline value. The value os read directly from the file as the read size in io->strictread(), and is never compared to the actual size of the destination buffer. An attacker can provide an XWD file with an arbitrarily large bytesper_line, causing a massive write operation beyond the buffer heap allocated for the image pixels. The issue did not have a fix at the time of publication.
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References
https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/27xxx/CVE-2026-27168.json, https://github.com/HappySeaFox/sail/security/advisories/GHSA-3g38-x2pj-mv55, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27168
