NetSurf libnsbmp through 0.1.7 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in bmp_decode_rle8() and bmp_decode_rle4() because absolute-run bound checks omit the word-alignment pad byte. Attackers can supply a crafted RLE8 or RLE4 BMP ending on an odd-length absolute run to cause a one-byte heap over-read, crashing applications decoding untrusted images.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 2
- StatusReceived → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-16 18:25
- First seenCVSS 6.8NVD modified 2026-10-15 19:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 6
- https://download.netsurf-browser.org/libs/releases/libnsbmp-0.1.7-src.tar.gz
- https://github.com/netsurf-browser/libnsbmp
- https://github.com/netsurf-browser/libnsbmp/blob/ea063c9f46acb43e90208da14073332b505ef7e7/src/libnsbmp.c#L1096-L1147
- https://github.com/netsurf-browser/libnsbmp/blob/ea063c9f46acb43e90208da14073332b505ef7e7/src/libnsbmp.c#L942-L982
- https://hackmd.io/@haind-pwn/libnsbmp-rle-absolute-pad-and-ico-mask-oob-read
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/netsurf-libnsbmp-through-0.1.7-out-of-bounds-read-in-rle8-and-rle4-decoders