CVE-2019-3573

published 2019-01-02

CVE-2019-3573: In libsixel v1.8.2, there is an infinite loop in the function sixel_decode_raw_impl() in the file fromsixel.c, as demonstrated by sixel2png.

Priority P4 16 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR N UI R S U C N I N A H

In libsixel v1.8.2, there is an infinite loop in the function sixel_decode_raw_impl() in the file fromsixel.c, as demonstrated by sixel2png.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	libsixel	< libsixel 1.8.2-2 (bookworm)	libsixel 1.8.2-2 (bookworm)
libsixel_project	libsixel	>= 0 < 1.8.2-2	1.8.2-2
libsixel_project	libsixel	>= 0 < 1.8.2-2	1.8.2-2
libsixel_project	libsixel	>= 0 < 1.8.2-2	1.8.2-2
libsixel_project	libsixel	>= 0 < 1.8.2-2	1.8.2-2
saitoha	libsixel	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.5 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.5 LOW

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