CVE-2017-2901: Blender

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable integer overflow exists in the IRIS loading functionality of the Blender open-source 3d creation suite version 2.78c. A specially crafted '.iris' file can cause an integer overflow resulting in a buffer overflow which can allow for code execution under the context of the application. An attacker can convince a user to use the file as an asset via the sequencer in order to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

  • Blender Blender: version 2.78c only
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

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