Out-of-bounds Read Affecting leptonica package, versions [,1.80.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.87% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LEPTONICA-10076371
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed12 Mar 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Mar 2021

CVE-2020-36281  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade leptonica to version 1.80.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. Leptonica before 1.80.0 allows a heap-based buffer over-read in pixFewColorsOctcubeQuantMixed in colorquant1.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1