CVE-2019-5087

HIGH 8.8CVE-2019-5087 · Published 21/11/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-5087 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting xcftools (xcftools project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.6%, higher than 89.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xcftools xcftools_project	`= 1.0.7`	No fix yet

Description

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the flattenIncrementally function in the xcf2png and xcf2pnm binaries of xcftools 1.0.7. An integer overflow can occur while calculating the row's allocation size, that could be exploited to corrupt memory and eventually execute arbitrary code. In order to trigger this vulnerability, a victim would need to open a specially crafted XCF file.

References

lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00014.html · Mailing List
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00008.html · Mailing List
talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0879 · Exploit
talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0879 · Exploit

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