MajorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2017-20286 (CVSS 8.5)
NVD · officialPublished Oct 14, 2026Risk 37/100
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.
Technical details
CVSS
8.5
AV:LocalAC:LowPR:NoneUI:Passive
Evidence and sources
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