Medium
Security advisory
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Allegro through 5.2.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted PCX/TGA/BMP files to allegro_image addon.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-36489
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:50 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Allegro through 5.2.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted PCX/TGA/BMP files to allegro_image addon.
osv:CVE-2021-36489
Complete source record
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