CVE-2017-2888: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists when creating a new RGB Surface in SDL 2.0.5. A specially crafted file can cause an integer overflow resulting in too little memory being allocated which can lead to a buffer overflow and potential code execution. An attacker can provide a specially crafted image file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Libsdl Simple Directmedia Layer: version 2.0.5 only

Published 2017-10-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.