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UBUNTU-CVE-2017-20286 (CVE-2017-20286)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-10-14 00:00 – Updated: 2026-10-14 00:00 – Source website

Details

DevIL through 1.8.0 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in iGetPalette() in il_gif.cpp that allows attackers to write beyond a 768-byte palette buffer when loading GIF images. Attackers can supply a crafted two-frame GIF whose second frame uses disposal method 1 with a local colour table, writing up to 384 controlled bytes past the heap allocation and possibly executing code.

Severity

8.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

7.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

8.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-20286	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-20286	REPORT
	github.com/dentonw/devil	REPORT

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CVE-2017-20286 (GCVE-0-2017-20286)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-14 14:16 – Updated: 2026-10-14 15:55

Title

DevIL through 1.8.0 Heap Buffer Overflow via GIF iGetPalette

Summary

Severity

8.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-10-14 14:52 UTC

CWE

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Assigner

VulnCheck CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 84/100 over 6527 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/DentonW/DevIL/issues/67	issue-tracking
https://hackmd.io/@haind-pwn/devil-gif-palette-re…	third-party-advisory
https://github.com/DentonW/DevIL/blob/a2d9193fed0…	technical-description
https://github.com/DentonW/DevIL/blob/a2d9193fed0…	technical-description
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/devil-throug…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
DentonW	DevIL	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.8.0 (semver)

Date Public

2017-10-09 00:00

Credits

Photosounder HaiND from the Post and Telecommunication Institute of Technology

Show details on NVD website

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