PT-2019-16621

CVE-2019-3573

Published

2019-01-02

Updated

2024-12-20

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.5

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libsixel version 1.8.2

Description The issue is related to an infinite loop in the sixel decode raw impl() function, located in the fromsixel.c file. This has been demonstrated using sixel2png.

Recommendations For libsixel version 1.8.2, consider avoiding the use of the sixel decode raw impl() function until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploitability

Exploit

Impacts

Researchers

Cool-Tomato

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (\'Infinite Loop\')

Related identifiers

CVE-2019-3573

ALT-PU-2020-2902