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Uncontrolled Recursion

CVE-2019-11024

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

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

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

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

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published