CVE-2019-5087

HIGH

xcftools <1.0.7 - RCE

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the flattenIncrementally function in the xcf2png and xcf2pnm binaries of xcftools 1.0.7. An integer overflow can occur while calculating the row's allocation size, that could be exploited to corrupt memory and eventually execute arbitrary code. In order to trigger this vulnerability, a victim would need to open a specially crafted XCF file.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0075
EPSS Percentile 73.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190 CWE-787 CWE-680
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
xcftools_project/xcftools 1.0.7
Published Nov 21, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026