Bug 2477645 (CVE-2026-44637) - CVE-2026-44637 libsixel: libsixel: Arbitrary code execution or denial of service due to signed integer overflow
Summary: CVE-2026-44637 libsixel: libsixel: Arbitrary code execution or denial of serv...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-44637
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-14 21:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-15 08:34 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-14 21:02:47 UTC
libsixel is a SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation derived from kmiya's sixel. From  to 1.8.7-r1, a signed integer overflow in the SIXEL parser's image-buffer doubling loop can lead to an out-of-bounds heap write in sixel_decode_raw_impl. context->pos_x grows by repeat_count on every sixel character with no upper bound check. Once pos_x approaches INT_MAX, the expression "pos_x + repeat_count" used to size the image buffer overflows signed int. Depending on how the overflow wraps, the resize check that should reject oversized buffers can be bypassed, after which a subsequent write computes a large attacker-influenced offset into image->data and writes past the allocation. Reachable from any caller that decodes attacker-supplied SIXEL data, including img2sixel. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.7-r2.


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