Out-of-bounds Write Affecting saitoha/libsixel package, versions [0,1.8.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SAITOHALIBSIXEL-2364228
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Sept 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Sep 2021

CVE-2020-21547  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade saitoha/libsixel to version 1.8.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. Libsixel 1.8.2 contains a heap-based buffer overflow in the dither_func_fs function in tosixel.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1