Memory Corruption Vulnerability in WebP Image Decoding of SAIL Image Decoding Library
CVE-2025-52456

8.8HIGH

What is CVE-2025-52456?

A memory corruption vulnerability in the WebP Image Decoding functionality of the SAIL Image Decoding Library v0.9.8 allows an attacker to exploit specially crafted .webp animations. This exploitation can trigger an integer overflow during stride calculation, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow when decoding the image. An attacker must induce the library to process a malicious file to successfully exploit this vulnerability, potentially resulting in remote code execution.

Affected Version(s)

SAIL Image Decoding Library v0.9.8

References

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Discovered by a member of Cisco Talos.
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CVE-2025-52456 : Memory Corruption Vulnerability in WebP Image Decoding of SAIL Image Decoding Library