CVE-2017-14442: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the BMP image rendering functionality of SDL2_image-2.0.2. A specially crafted BMP image can cause a stack overflow resulting in code execution. An attacker can display a specially crafted image to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Libsdl Sdl Image: version 2.0.2 only

Published 2018-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.