CVE-2026-33020 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Libsixel
Severity
7.1HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.01%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 14
Latest updateApr 17
Description
libsixel is a SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation derived from kmiya's sixel. Versions 1.8.7 and prior contain an integer overflow which leads to a heap buffer overflow via sixel_frame_convert_to_rgb888() in frame.c, where allocation size and pointer offset computations for palettised images (PAL1, PAL2, PAL4) are performed using int arithmetic before casting to size_t. For images whose pixel count exceeds INT_MAX / 4, the overflow produces an undersized heap allocation for the conversion buffe…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.2
Affected Packages1 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
1Red Hat
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