PT-2017-17966 · Feh+1 · Feh+1

Tobias Stoeckmann · Published 2017-04-14 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2017-7875

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions feh versions prior to 2.18.3

Description The issue arises from an integer overflow in the wallpaper.c file of feh, which can lead to a buffer overflow and/or a double free when receiving an IPC message from a malicious client pretending to be the E17 window manager.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.18.3, update to version 2.18.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-3072

ALT-PU-2020-3091

ALT-PU-2022-2030

CVE-2017-7875

DLA-2219-1

DLA-899-1

MGASA-2017-0137

MGASA-2017-0149

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10751-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Feh

References · 33

• https://github.com/derf/feh/commit/f7a547b7ef8fc8ebdeaa4c28515c9d72e592fb6d · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7875 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0149.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7875 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7875 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-08 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7875 · Vendor Advisory
• https://feh.finalrewind.org · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10751-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-2219-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0149 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7875 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-2219-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2020-3091 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0137 · Vendor Advisory