Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libsixel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-LIBSIXEL-543533
  • published2 Jan 2019
  • disclosed2 Jan 2019

Introduced: 2 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-3574  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

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

In libsixel v1.8.2, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function load_jpeg() in the file loader.c, as demonstrated by img2sixel.