CVE-2020-36430

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

Git / github.com/libass/libass

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/libass/libass

Events

Introduced

d149636f502f5774ae1a8fb4c554b122674393b2

Fixed

5447214643eacef71776350e779adf4b6c07bb3b

Fixed

017137471d0043e0321e377ed8da48e45a3ec632

Database specific

{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.15.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.15.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*

0.15.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-36430.json"

vanir_signatures

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    {
        "id": "CVE-2020-36430-1e115502",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/libass/libass/commit/017137471d0043e0321e377ed8da48e45a3ec632",
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "110991188393091881186985668039830991525",
            "length": 1124.0
        },
        "target": {
            "function": "decode_font",
            "file": "libass/ass.c"
        }
    },
    {
        "id": "CVE-2020-36430-dd9ed4a7",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "237761427446648667051004743683370618705",
                "203614521959843642792803634604266039747",
                "167057952582482068803313308181837134398",
                "185673660414575620126904484215688046936",
                "78573754609072835798149174981656735930",
                "103499063678342063401077868684384475532",
                "334814143342617232491248731862329862754",
                "124461199810427598757175082018620638494"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/libass/libass/commit/017137471d0043e0321e377ed8da48e45a3ec632",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "libass/ass.c"
        }
    }
]

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-04-11T13:53:14Z"

unresolved_ranges

[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "34"
            }
        ]
    }
]