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CVE-2021-42716

HIGH CVSS: 7.1 Published: 2021-10-21 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

An issue was discovered in stb stb_image.h 2.27. The PNM loader incorrectly interpreted 16-bit PGM files as 8-bit when converting to RGBA, leading to a buffer overflow when later reinterpreting the result as a 16-bit buffer. An attacker could potentially have crashed a service using stb_image, or read up to 1024 bytes of non-consecutive heap data without control over the read location.

Affected Platforms

Fedoraproject FedoraNothings Stb Image.H

Weakness Type

CWE-120

References