High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-14442

Description

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the BMP image rendering functionality of SDL2_image-2.0.2. A specially crafted BMP image can cause a stack overflow resulting in code execution. An attacker can display a specially crafted image to trigger this vulnerability.

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Affected products

Sdl/Sdl Imagellm-fuzzy
Range: =2.0.2
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/suse/SDL_image&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4
Range: < 1.2.6-84.42.1
Sam Lantinga and Mattias Engdegård/Simple DirectMedia Layerv5
Range: SDL2_image 2.0.2

Patches

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References

lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00005.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-17nvdThird Party Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4177nvdThird Party Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4184nvdThird Party Advisory
www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0491nvdThird Party Advisory

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