Division by zero - CVE-2018-20544

 

Division by zero - CVE-2018-20544

Published: December 28, 2018 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33369
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20544
CWE-ID: CWE-369
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor:
Affected software:

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

There is floating point exception at caca/dither.c (function caca_dither_bitmap) in libcaca 0.99.beta19.


How to mitigate CVE-2018-20544

Install update from vendor's website.

Sources