Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 14, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-7875

Description

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.

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Affected products

Feh Project/Feh
cpe:2.3:a:feh_project:feh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=2.18.2
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/feh&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 3.7-1.3

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

feh.finalrewind.orgnvdPatchProduct
github.com/derf/feh/commit/f7a547b7ef8fc8ebdeaa4c28515c9d72e592fb6dnvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/97689nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00021.htmlnvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-08nvd

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