CVE-2026-27168CWE-122

SAIL: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Sail-codecs-xwd

High · published February 20, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
52.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00701 · 52.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Published
2026-02-20T23:34Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 FEB 23:34Z
    SAIL: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Sail-codecs-xwd
    cvelistv5