Integer overflow - CVE-2018-20548
Published: December 28, 2018 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33373
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-2018-20548
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 1bpp data.
Affected software
libcaca (Alpine package)
Opensuse
Opensuse
How to mitigate CVE-2018-20548
Install update from vendor's website.
libcaca (Alpine package) - update to 0.99_beta19-r3