CVE-2017-7875 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2017-7875 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.74% · 72.7th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.74%

72.7th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	feh	0, 2.13.1-1, 2.14-1

Timeline

Apr 14, 2017 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

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

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