High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in libsixel 1.8.4. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function gif_init_frame at fromgif.c.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-20094
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- 31 Oct 2026, 11:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in libsixel 1.8.4. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function gif_init_frame at fromgif.c.
osv:CVE-2019-20094
Complete source record
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