Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libsixel  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2010-LIBSIXEL-1030806
  • published1 Nov 2020
  • disclosed30 Dec 2019

Introduced: 30 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-20140  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.

NVD Description

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

An issue was discovered in libsixel 1.8.4. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function gif_out_code at fromgif.c.