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.
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Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | SAIL: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Sail-codecs-xwd | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-122 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-02-20T23:34:54.580Z
Reserved: 2026-02-18T00:18:53.963Z
Link: CVE-2026-27168
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-02-21T00:16:16.640
Modified: 2026-02-23T18:13:53.397
Link: CVE-2026-27168
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Updated: 2026-02-23T14:33:00Z
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