CVE-2026-33023— libsixel: Use-after-free in load_with_gdkpixbuf()

libsixel: Use-after-free in load_with_gdkpixbuf()

libsixel is a SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation derived from kmiya's sixel. In versions 1.8.7 and prior, when built with the --with-gdk-pixbuf2 option, a use-after-free vulnerability exists in load_with_gdkpixbuf() in loader.c. The cleanup path manually frees the sixel_frame_t object and its internal buffers without consulting the reference count, even though the object was created via the refcounted constructor sixel_frame_new() and exposed to the public callback. A callback that calls sixel_frame_ref(frame) to retain a logically valid reference will hold a dangling pointer after sixel_helper_load_image_file() returns, and any subsequent access to the frame or its fields triggers a use-after-free confirmed by AddressSanitizer. The root cause is a consistency failure between two cleanup strategies in the same codebase: sixel_frame_unref() is used in load_with_builtin() but raw free() is used in load_with_gdkpixbuf(). An attacker supplying a crafted image to any application built against libsixel with gdk-pixbuf2 support can trigger this reliably, potentially leading to information disclosure, memory corruption, or code execution. This issue has been fixed in version 1.8.7-r1.

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

释放后使用

libsixel 资源管理错误漏洞

libsixel是Hayaki Saito个人开发者的一个为DEC SIXEL图形和其他转换器程序提供编码/解码实现的软件包。 libsixel 1.8.7及之前版本存在资源管理错误漏洞，该漏洞源于使用--with-gdk-pixbuf2选项构建时，load_with_gdkpixbuf函数存在释放后重用问题，可能导致处理特制图像时触发释放后重用，造成信息泄露、内存损坏或代码执行。

N/A

N/A