CVE-2026-35444

libsdl2-image: SDL_image is a library to load images of various formats as SDL surfaces

CVE-2026-35444 is fixed in 11 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35444, released April 6, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
6.1
medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0027
18th percentile

SDL_image is a library to load images of various formats as SDL surfaces. In do_layer_surface() in src/IMG_xcf.c, pixel index values from decoded XCF tile data are used directly as colormap indices without validating them against the colormap size (cm_num). A crafted .xcf file with a small colormap and out-of-range pixel indices causes heap out-of-bounds reads of up to 762 bytes past the colormap allocation. Both IMAGE_INDEXED code paths are affected (bpp=1 and bpp=2). The leaked heap bytes are written into the output surface pixel data, making them potentially observable in the rendered image. This vulnerability is fixed with commit 996bf12888925932daace576e09c3053410896f8.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
SDL2_image · Fedora 43 2.8.12-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-F1F87B465A May 10, 2026
SDL2_image-debuginfo · Fedora 43 2.8.12-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-F1F87B465A May 10, 2026
SDL2_image-debugsource · Fedora 43 2.8.12-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-F1F87B465A May 10, 2026
SDL2_image-devel · Fedora 43 2.8.12-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-F1F87B465A May 10, 2026
libsdl2-image · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 2.8.8+dfsg-1+deb13u1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35444 Apr 6, 2026
libsdl2-image · Debian 14 2.8.10+dfsg-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35444 Apr 6, 2026
libsdl3-image · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 3.2.4+ds-1+deb13u1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35444 Apr 6, 2026
libsdl3-image · Debian 14 3.4.2+ds-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35444 Apr 6, 2026
mingw-SDL2_image · Fedora 43 2.8.12-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-BC38EBDF4C Jun 12, 2026
mingw32-SDL2_image · Fedora 43 2.8.12-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-BC38EBDF4C Jun 12, 2026
mingw32-SDL2_image-debuginfo · Fedora 43 2.8.12-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-BC38EBDF4C Jun 12, 2026
mingw64-SDL2_image · Fedora 43 2.8.12-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-BC38EBDF4C Jun 12, 2026
mingw64-SDL2_image-debuginfo · Fedora 43 2.8.12-1.fc43 FEDORA-2026-BC38EBDF4C Jun 12, 2026

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