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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.5 Medium

CVE-2026-42146

CImg Library: Uncontrolled memory allocation via nb_colors field in _load_bmp

Description

CImg Library is a C++ library for image processing. Prior to commit c3aacf5, the nb_colors field read from the BMP file header is used directly to compute an allocation size without validating it against the remaining file size. A crafted BMP file with a large nb_colors value triggers an out-of-memory condition, crashing any application that uses CImg to load untrusted BMP files. This issue has been patched via commit c3aacf5.

Affected products

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GreycLab CImg

  • < c3aacf5b96ac1e54b7af1957c6737dbf3949f6d3affected

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