CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-11024

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Apr 08, 2019 | Modified: Aug 24, 2020
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The load_pnm function in frompnm.c in libsixel.a in libsixel 1.8.2 has infinite recursion.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libsixel Libsixel_project 1.8.2 (including) 1.8.2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References