DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36430

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-36430
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36430.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36430
Upstream
Published
2021-07-20T07:15:07.817Z
Modified
2026-03-11T07:32:10.769307Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

libass 0.15.x before 0.15.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow in decodechars (called from decodefont and process_text) because the wrong integer data type is used for subtraction.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libass

Package

Name
libass
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libass?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:0.15.0-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36430.json"

Debian:12 / libass

Package

Name
libass
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libass?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:0.15.0-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36430.json"

Debian:13 / libass

Package

Name
libass
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libass?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:0.15.0-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36430.json"

Debian:14 / libass

Package

Name
libass
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libass?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:0.15.0-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36430.json"