CVE-2020-24221: I found a large or infinite loop in ngiflib · Issue #17 · miniupnp/ngiflib

I used the command line gif2tga --outbase /dev/null path_to_file to run gif2tga and got a timeout.
The program didn’t return or repsond.
The system is ubuntu 16.04.6 amd-64, source commit id is: 0245fd4
compiled by gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12)

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Reading symbols from gif2tga…done.
(gdb) r --outbase /dev/null /home/yang/test.gif
Starting program: /home/yang/MyProject/remote_test/target_src/ngiflib/gif2tga --outbase /dev/null /home/yang/test.gif
^C
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0x00007ffff7b04320 in __read_nocancel () at …/sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:84
84 …/sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S: No such file or directory.
(gdb) step
_IO_new_file_underflow (fp=0x605070) at fileops.c:594
594 fileops.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) step
597 in fileops.c
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596 in fileops.c
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597 in fileops.c
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607 in fileops.c
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613 in fileops.c
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608 in fileops.c
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613 in fileops.c
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__GI__IO_default_uflow (fp=0x605070) at genops.c:414
414 genops.c: No such file or directory.
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417 in genops.c
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_IO_getc (fp=0x605070) at getc.c:37
37 getc.c: No such file or directory.
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_IO_acquire_lock_fct (p=) at libioP.h:866
866 libioP.h: No such file or directory.
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_IO_getc (fp=0x605070) at getc.c:37
37 getc.c: No such file or directory.
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_IO_acquire_lock_fct (p=) at libioP.h:867
867 libioP.h: No such file or directory.
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The poc is attached below.

Thank you.