Out-of-bounds Write Affecting saitoha/libsixel package, versions [0,1.8.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.12% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SAITOHALIBSIXEL-2364233
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-20140  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade saitoha/libsixel to version 1.8.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. An issue was discovered in libsixel 1.8.4. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function gif_out_code at fromgif.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1