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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2026-54626 EUVD-2026-82407

SAIL: Heap out-of-bounds write in SAIL TGA decoder (indexed-RLE bpp/stride mismatch)

Published Sep 17, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

SAIL is a cross-platform library for loading and saving images with support for animation, metadata, and ICC profiles. In 0.9.10 and earlier, the TGA_INDEXED_RLE path selected by image_type == 9 allocates an image buffer using the one-byte-per-pixel SAIL_PIXEL_FORMAT_BPP8_INDEXED format returned by tga_private_sail_pixel_format() in src/sail-codecs/tga/helpers.c, while sail_codec_load_frame_v8_tga() in src/sail-codecs/tga/tga.c derives a two-to-four-byte pixel_size from an attacker-controlled header bpp value from 9 through 32. Loading a crafted color-mapped run-length-encoded TGA through sail_load_from_file() or sail_load_from_memory() therefore writes attacker-controlled bytes beyond the heap pixel buffer. The pixel-count clamp added for CVE-2026-40494 does not constrain the per-pixel write width, so this issue is an incomplete fix of that vulnerability and can cause heap corruption, a reliable crash, or potential code execution. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
HappySeaFox sail < 1.0.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 sail 1.2.0-1 —
Debian 13 sail No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 sail No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sail No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS sail No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling sail +1 No fix yet —

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