| Name | CVE-2025-9300 |
| Description | A vulnerability was found in saitoha libsixel up to 1.10.3. Affected by this issue is the function sixel_debug_print_palette of the file src/encoder.c of the component img2sixel. The manipulation results in stack-based buffer overflow. The attack must be initiated from a local position. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The patch is identified as 316c086e79d66b62c0c4bc66229ee894e4fdb7d1. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1111877 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libsixel (PTS) | bullseye | 1.8.6-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.10.3-3 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid, trixie | 1.10.5-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| libsixel | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 1111877 |
Notes
[trixie] - libsixel <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - libsixel <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - libsixel <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/issues/200
https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/316c086e79d66b62c0c4bc66229ee894e4fdb7d1