Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libass  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBASS-1320353
  • published21 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Jul 2021

Introduced: 20 Jul 2021

CVE-2020-36430  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libass package and not the libass package as distributed by Ubuntu.

libass 0.15.x before 0.15.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow in decode_chars (called from decode_font and process_text) because the wrong integer data type is used for subtraction.