CVE-2025-9300

high

Published 2025-08-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

1.9

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

VIR risk

7.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	forky	fixed	`1:1.8.7-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:1.8.7-1`
debian	trixie	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
saitoha	libsixel	`{"endExcluding":"1.8.7"}`	`1.8.7`

References

CWEs

CWE-119 CWE-121 CWE-787

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.