Integer overflow - CVE-2018-20546

 

Integer overflow - CVE-2018-20546

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33371
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20546
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 #BASIC_IMPACT#.

There is an illegal READ memory access at caca/dither.c (function get_rgba_default) in libcaca 0.99.beta19 for the default bpp case.


Affected software

libcaca (Alpine package)
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2018-20546

Install update from vendor's website.

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

External References

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