# CVE-2020-36277: Leptonica before 1.80.0 allows a denial of service (application crash) via an incorrect left shift in pixConvert2To8 in pixconv.c.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-03-11 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Leptonica before 1.80.0 allows a denial of service (application crash) via an incorrect left shift in pixConvert2To8 in pixconv.c.

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## References

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=21997
- https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/pull/499
- https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/compare/1.79.0...1.80.0
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00037.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RD5AIWHWE334HGYZJR2U3I3JYKSSO2LW/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQUEA2X6UTH4DMYCMZAWE2QQLN5YANUA/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-53

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