Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Imager versions before 1.032 for Perl have a heap out-of-bounds read in the bundled Imager::File::SGI reader via a 16-bit RLE literal run in readrgb16rle.

readrgb16rle guards each literal run with if (count > dataleft), but count is a pixel count while every 16-bit sample consumes two bytes. The copy loop reads inp[0] 256 + inp[1] and advances two bytes per pixel, so a run with dataleft / 2 < count <= dataleft passes the guard yet consumes 2 count bytes and reads past the end of the buffer. The 8-bit path is unaffected because there one pixel is one byte.

Reading a crafted SGI image through Imager->read triggers the over-read before the parser rejects the malformed image, which can crash the process.

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