Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU33370

Integer overflow - CVE-2018-20545

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

Vulnerability identifier: #VU33370

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20545

CWE-ID: CWE-190

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

There is an illegal WRITE memory access at common-image.c (function load_image) in libcaca 0.99.beta19 for 4bpp data.

libcaca (Alpine package)
Opensuse

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libcaca (Alpine package) - update to 0.99_beta19-r3