Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libsixel  (opens in a new tab)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-1031531
  • published1 Nov 2020
  • disclosed8 Apr 2019

Introduced: 8 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-11024  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (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.

The load_pnm function in frompnm.c in libsixel.a in libsixel 1.8.2 has infinite recursion.