CVE-2026-35444CWE-125

SDL_image has a heap buffer overflow READ via unchecked colormap index in XCF loader

High · published April 6, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
21.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

SDL_image is a library to load images of various formats as SDL surfaces. In do_layer_surface() in src/IMG_xcf.c, pixel index values from decoded XCF tile data are used directly as colormap indices without validating them against the colormap size (cm_num). A crafted .xcf file with a small colormap and out-of-range pixel indices causes heap out-of-bounds reads of up to 762 bytes past the colormap allocation. Both IMAGE_INDEXED code paths are affected (bpp=1 and bpp=2). The leaked heap bytes are written into the output surface pixel data, making them potentially observable in the rendered image. This vulnerability is fixed with commit 996bf12888925932daace576e09c3053410896f8.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00303 · 21.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2026-04-06T21:44Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 APR 21:44Z
    SDL_image has a heap buffer overflow READ via unchecked colormap index in XCF loader
    cvelistv5