Bug 2358174

Summary:	CVE-2025-3406 retroarch: Nothings stb Header Array out-of-bounds read [fedora-40]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michal Findra <mfindra>
Component:	retroarch	Assignee:	Artem <ego.cordatus>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	40	CC:	code, ego.cordatus
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Description Michal Findra 2025-04-08 06:11:31 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2358118

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Ben Beasley 2025-04-08 10:05:32 UTC

http://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3406

The CVE contains little detail and no suggested mitigation.

It is easy to see how an incorrect image-width argument w to the function stbhw_build_tileset_from_image could result in an out-of-bounds read in the data buffer, but an API user only supplies the buffer size indirectly via the w and h arguments, so it’s incumbent on the API user to make sure they are sane – there is nothing that can be done within stbhw_build_tileset_from_image to further validate them.

I am inclined to suggest that this CVE is invalid: the API user must provide a consistent width, height, and data buffer. We don’t say that memcpy() is vulnerable because an API user could pass it the wrong size argument n.

Comment 2 Ben Beasley 2025-04-08 10:10:26 UTC

Furthermore:

The retroarch source package declares bundled(stb), but it only specifically includes stb_image, stb_rect_pack, stb_truetype, and stb_vorbis. The CVE was reported against stbhw_build_tileset_from_image, so retroarch cannot be affected.