blender — security advisory
An exploitable integer overflow exists in the thumbnail functionality of the Blender open-source 3d creation suite version 2.78c. A specially crafted .blend file can cause an integer overflow resulting in a buffer overflow which can allow for code execution under the context of the application. An attacker can convince a user to render the thumbnail for the file while in the File->Open dialog.
- Products
- blender
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.79.a+dfsg0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-2908
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 14:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An exploitable integer overflow exists in the thumbnail functionality of the Blender open-source 3d creation suite version 2.78c. A specially crafted .blend file can cause an integer overflow resulting in a buffer overflow which can allow for code execution under the context of the application. An attacker can convince a user to render the thumbnail for the file while in the File->Open dialog.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2908
blender
Fixed versions: 2.79.a+dfsg0-1
blender
Fixed versions: 2.79.a+dfsg0-1
Complete source record
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