CVE-2018-20547Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Libcaca

Severity
8.1HIGHNVD
OSV5.5
EPSS
1.0%
top 22.91%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 28
Latest updateMay 13

Description

There is an illegal READ memory access at caca/dither.c (function get_rgba_default) in libcaca 0.99.beta19 for 24bpp data.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages5 packages

debiandebian/libcaca< libcaca 0.99.beta19-2.1 (bookworm)
Debianlibcaca_project/libcaca< 0.99.beta19-2.1+3
Ubuntulibcaca_project/libcaca< 0.99.beta18-1ubuntu5.1+2
NVDopensuse/leap15.0

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Fedora 34, 35, 36, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-m74g-vjwg-c8rp: There is an illegal READ memory access at caca/dither2022-05-13
OSV
libcaca vulnerabilities2019-01-15
OSV
CVE-2018-20547: There is an illegal READ memory access at caca/dither2018-12-28

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
libcaca vulnerabilities2019-01-15
Ubuntu
libcaca vulnerabilities2019-01-15
Debian
CVE-2018-20547: libcaca - There is an illegal READ memory access at caca/dither.c (function get_rgba_defau...2018

💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20544 CVE-2018-20545 CVE-2018-20546 CVE-2018-20547 CVE-2018-20548 CVE-2018-20549 libcaca: various flaws [fedora-all]2019-03-12
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20544 CVE-2018-20545 CVE-2018-20546 CVE-2018-20547 CVE-2018-20548 CVE-2018-20549 libcaca: various flaws [fedora-all]2019-03-12
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20547 libcaca: out of bounds read in function get_rgba_default in caca/dither.c for 24bpp data2019-03-12
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20544 CVE-2018-20545 CVE-2018-20546 CVE-2018-20547 CVE-2018-20548 CVE-2018-20549 libcaca: various flaws [epel-all]2019-03-12