Out-of-Bounds Affecting libsixel package, versions <1.8.6-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.77% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-LIBSIXEL-11749316
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed14 Sept 2021

Introduced: 14 Sep 2021

CVE-2020-21050  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 libsixel to version 1.8.6-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libsixel package and not the libsixel package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

Libsixel prior to v1.8.3 contains a stack buffer overflow in the function gif_process_raster at fromgif.c.

CVSS Base Scores

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