Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in SVG++ (aka svgpp) 1.2.3. After calling the gil::get_color function in Generic Image Library in Boost, the return code is used as an address, leading to an Access Violation because of an out-of-bounds read.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-6246
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- 31 Oct 2026, 10:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in SVG++ (aka svgpp) 1.2.3. After calling the gil::get_color function in Generic Image Library in Boost, the return code is used as an address, leading to an Access Violation because of an out-of-bounds read.
osv:CVE-2019-6246
Complete source record
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