UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7875

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7875

    Published: 14 Apr 2017Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-7875

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7875, https://feh.finalrewind.org/, https://github.com/derf/feh/commit/f7a547b7ef8fc8ebdeaa4c28515c9d72e592fb6d, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7875

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: feh

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.13.1-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High