Dan Bloomberg Leptonica up to 1.79.x adaptmap_reg.c rasteropGeneralLow heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Dan Bloomberg Leptonica up to 1.79.x. Impacted is the function rasteropGeneralLow of the file adaptmap_reg.c. Performing a manipulation results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-36279. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Dan Bloomberg Leptonica up to 1.79.x. This affects the function rasteropGeneralLow of the file adaptmap_reg.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 03/12/2021. The advisory is shared at bugs.chromium.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-36279. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 1.80.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Vendor

• Dan Bloomberg

Name

• Leptonica

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29
• 1.30
• 1.31
• 1.32
• 1.33
• 1.34
• 1.35
• 1.36
• 1.37
• 1.38
• 1.39
• 1.40
• 1.41
• 1.42
• 1.43
• 1.44
• 1.45
• 1.46
• 1.47
• 1.48
• 1.49
• 1.50
• 1.51
• 1.52
• 1.53
• 1.54
• 1.55
• 1.56
• 1.57
• 1.58
• 1.59
• 1.60
• 1.61
• 1.62
• 1.63
• 1.64
• 1.65
• 1.66
• 1.67
• 1.68
• 1.69
• 1.70
• 1.71
• 1.72
• 1.73
• 1.74
• 1.75
• 1.76
• 1.77
• 1.78
• 1.79

License

• open-source

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