Description
A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the BMPv3 RLE Decoding functionality of the SAIL Image Decoding Library v0.9.8. When decompressing the image data from a specially crafted .bmp file, a heap-based buffer overflow can occur which allows for remote code execution. An attacker will need to convince the library to read a file to trigger this vulnerability.
Problem types
CWE-680: Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow
Product status
Credits
Discovered by a member of Cisco Talos.
References
talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2025-2221
