CVE-2026-27168

🔴 HIGH

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'...

Published
Feb 21, 2026
Last Modified
Feb 23, 2026
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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 bytes_per_line value. The value os read directly from the file as the read size in io->strict_read(), and is never compared to the actual size of the destination buffer. An attacker can provide an XWD file with an arbitrarily large bytes_per_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.

CVSS Scores

CVSS 3.1 8.8
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 2.0 8.8

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Source
security-advisories@github.com
State
Undergoing analysis

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