Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting libsixel package, versions <1.5.2-2+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-LIBSIXEL-263095
  • published22 Jul 2018
  • disclosed15 Jul 2018

Introduced: 15 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-14073  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 libsixel to version 1.5.2-2+deb9u1 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

libsixel 1.8.1 has a memory leak in sixel_allocator_new in allocator.c.