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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-14636

Because of an integer overflow in sam2p 0.49.3, a loop executes 0xffffffff times, ending with an invalid read of size 1 in the Image::Indexed::sortPal function in image.cpp. However, this also causes memory corruption because of an attempted write to the invalid d[0xfffffffe] array element.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:51 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-14636

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Sept 2017, 07:29 UTC

Because of an integer overflow in sam2p 0.49.3, a loop executes 0xffffffff times, ending with an invalid read of size 1 in the Image::Indexed::sortPal function in image.cpp. However, this also causes memory corruption because of an attempted write to the invalid d[0xfffffffe] array element.

osv:CVE-2017-14636
Complete source record
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