CVE-2018-20545 (GCVE-0-2018-20545)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-28 03:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 12:05
VLAI
Summary
There is an illegal WRITE memory access at common-image.c (function load_image) in libcaca 0.99.beta19 for 4bpp data.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-12-27 00:00
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