Upstream information

CVE-2017-7875 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.8
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1034567 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2017:1139-1

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`feh >= 3.7-1.3`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10751

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Apr 14 21:27:10 2017
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 23:31:41 2024