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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-20549: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 28, 2018
Added
Nov 27, 2019
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libcaca
Title
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