Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libsixel  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2010-LIBSIXEL-1032285
  • published9 Sept 2019
  • disclosed30 Nov 2018

Introduced: 30 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19761  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (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.

There is an illegal address access at fromsixel.c (function: sixel_decode_raw_impl) in libsixel 1.8.2 that will cause a denial of service.