CVE-2026-93019
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
9.1
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
0.7%
49.2th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-196
Published 2026-09-18 · modified 2026-09-18
Description
Imager versions before 1.036 for Perl exit the process reading a TGA with a colour map length of 32768 or more in tga_palette_read. The reader unpacks the two-byte colour map length into a signed short, so a length of 32768 or more becomes negative. tga_palette_read() casts that value to size_t and asks mymalloc() for a size near SIZE_MAX. The allocation fails and Imager's allocator calls exit(3). Reading an attacker-supplied file through Imager->read() triggers an uncatchable exit.
References
- https://github.com/tonycoz/imager/commit/74ed50e0625f9f51054e595bb4a8da92c1e0d571.patch
- https://github.com/tonycoz/imager/security/advisories/GHSA-p4vw-rc54-p2c2
- https://metacpan.org/release/TONYC/Imager-1.036/changes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/18/9
- https://github.com/tonycoz/imager/security/advisories/GHSA-p4vw-rc54-p2c2