Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libsixel  (opens in a new tab)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-1030821
  • published1 Nov 2020
  • disclosed27 Dec 2019

Introduced: 27 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-20023  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (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.

A memory leak was discovered in image_buffer_resize in fromsixel.c in libsixel 1.8.4.