Scribus before 1.6.7 contains an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability in the importsvm plugin that fails to verify bitmap and transparency mask dimensions match. Attackers can supply a crafted SVM file with mismatched mask dimensions to trigger heap reads and writes, causing crashes or code execution as the user.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.5 · scribusNVD modified 2026-10-30 15:33
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 4
- https://github.com/scribusproject/scribus/commit/c6aed467680d04e8ae8e0588579b095acdae40ef patch
- https://github.com/scribusproject/scribus product
- https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.6.7_Release release-notes
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/scribus-before-1.6.7-out-of-bounds-memory-access-via-svm-import-plugin third-party-advisory