CVE-2021-30499 (GCVE-0-2021-30499)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-26 23:50 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:25
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Summary
A flaw was found in libcaca. A buffer overflow of export.c in function export_troff might lead to memory corruption and other potential consequences.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a libcaca Affected: master
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