Out-of-bounds Read Affecting saitoha/libsixel package, versions [0,1.8.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SAITOHALIBSIXEL-2364231
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-19778  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade saitoha/libsixel to version 1.8.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. An issue was discovered in libsixel 1.8.2. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function load_sixel at loader.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1