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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-20549): libcaca vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-20549): libcaca vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/28/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/24/2019
Modified
01/20/2021

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-caca-utils
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcaca0

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