CVE-2018-20549 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Libcaca

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer10 documents6 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.9%
top 23.89%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
Libcaca Project LibcacaDebian LibcacaCanonical Ubuntu Linux+3 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 28
Latest updateMay 13

Description

There is an illegal WRITE memory access at caca/file.c (function caca_file_read) in libcaca 0.99.beta19.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/libcaca< libcaca 0.99.beta19-2.1 (bookworm)
▶Debianlibcaca_project/libcaca< 0.99.beta19-2.1+3
▶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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-9r44-h34p-vx3x: There is an illegal WRITE memory access at caca/file↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-20549: There is an illegal WRITE memory access at caca/file↗2018-12-28
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
libcaca vulnerabilities↗2019-01-15
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Ubuntu
libcaca vulnerabilities↗2019-01-15
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Debian
CVE-2018-20549: libcaca - There is an illegal WRITE memory access at caca/file.c (function caca_file_read)...↗2018
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-20549 libcaca: out of bounds write in function caca_file_read in caca/file.c↗2019-03-12
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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
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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
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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
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