CVE-2026-27168 HIGH

CVE-2026-27168: SAIL: Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Sail-codecs-xwd

Vendor Happyseafox
Product sail
Weakness CWE-122
Published February 20, 2026
Last update February 25, 2026

CVSS base score

8.8/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

SAIL is a cross-platform library for loading and saving images with support for animation, metadata, and ICC profiles. All versions are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow through the XWD parser's use of the bytes_per_line value. The value os read directly from the file as the read size in io->strict_read(), and is never compared to the actual size of the destination buffer. An attacker can provide an XWD file with an arbitrarily large bytes_per_line, causing a massive write operation beyond the buffer heap allocated for the image pixels. The issue did not have a fix at the time of publication.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 20, 2026 CVE published
February 25, 2026 Record updated