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Bug 783516 - media-libs/libsixel: stack buffer overflow (CVE-2020-36120)
Summary: media-libs/libsixel: stack buffer overflow (CVE-2020-36120)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 717254
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/i...
Whiteboard: B3 [upstream]
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Reported: 2021-04-17 23:44 UTC by John Helmert III
Modified: 2021-09-18 14:27 UTC (History)
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Description John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-04-17 23:44:18 UTC 
CVE-2020-36120:

Buffer Overflow in the "sixel_encoder_encode_bytes" function of Libsixel v1.8.6 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).


Looks like there's a bunch of security issues both open and closed too.
Comment 1 NATTkA bot gentoo-dev 2021-07-29 17:23:00 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
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Comment 6 NATTkA bot gentoo-dev 2021-07-29 18:11:40 UTC 
Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.
Comment 7 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-09-18 14:27:07 UTC 
Adding this CVE to the other bug to reduce complexity.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 717254 ***