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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:19:28.399Z

Reserved: 2017-04-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-7875

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-04-14T18:59:01.173

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-7875

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