{"id":"CVE-2017-7875","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-7875","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:48:48.949Z","title":"In wallpaper.c in feh before v2.18.3, if a malicious client pretends to be the E17 window manager, it is possible to trigger an out-of-boundary heap write while receiving an IPC message.","description":"In wallpaper.c in feh before v2.18.3, if a malicious client pretends to be the E17 window manager, it is possible to trigger an out-of-boundary heap write while receiving an IPC message. An integer overflow leads to a buffer overflow and/or a double free.","published":"2017-04-14T18:59:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:25:23.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-787"],"affected":["feh project/feh"],"epss":{"score":0.02266,"percentile":0.82931,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.27%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97689","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://feh.finalrewind.org/","tags":["Patch","Product"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/derf/feh/commit/f7a547b7ef8fc8ebdeaa4c28515c9d72e592fb6d","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00021.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-08","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97689","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://feh.finalrewind.org/","tags":["Patch","Product"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/derf/feh/commit/f7a547b7ef8fc8ebdeaa4c28515c9d72e592fb6d","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00021.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-08","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7875","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}