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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.1 High

CVE-2026-35444

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

Description

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.

Affected products

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libsdl-org SDL_image

  • < 996bf12888925932daace576e09c3053410896f8affected

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