Critical Heap Overflow Vulnerabilities in MAME Affect Multiple Ubuntu Releases

Critical Heap Overflow Vulnerabilities in MAME Affect Multiple Ubuntu Releases

First seen 5 Dec 2025, 03:42 UTC UbuntuLinuxsecurity 46.2

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A critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the stb library of MAME, affecting multiple Ubuntu versions including 25.10 and several LTS releases. This vulnerability could allow attackers to crash the program or execute arbitrary code. Additional vulnerabilities in the tinyexr and expat libraries were also identified, potentially exposing sensitive information.