Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-21050",
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    "title": "CVE-2020-21050",
    "summary": "Libsixel prior to v1.8.3 contains a stack buffer overflow in the function gif_process_raster at fromgif.c.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T13:52:23.399604234Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/blob/master/ChangeLog",
        "https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/releases/tag/v1.8.5",
        "https://bitbucket.org/netbsd/pkgsrc/commits/a27113e21179cbfbfae0c35f6a9edd6aa498faae",
        "https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/7808a06b88c11dbc502318cdd51fa374f8cd47ee",
        "https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/issues/75",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 388312,
  "published_at": "2021-09-14T16:15:08.987+00:00"
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