PT-2018-2596

CVE-2018-20544

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Published

2018-11-22

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Updated

2024-06-15

Description by

CVSS 3.1
6.5
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libcaca version 0.99.beta19
Description The issue is related to a division by zero error in the caca dither bitmap function, located in caca/dither.c, of the libcaca graphic library. This error can lead to a denial of service. The vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker.
Recommendations For libcaca version 0.99.beta19, as a temporary workaround, consider disabling the caca dither bitmap function until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
DLA-1631-1
MGASA-2019-0050
OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1144-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2019_1144-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10927-1
SUSE-SU-2019:0770-1
SUSE-SU-2019_0770-1
SUSE-SU-2019:2745-1
SUSE-SU-2019_2745-1
SUSE-SU-2019:2745-2
SUSE-SU-2019_2745-2
USN-3860-1
USN-3860-2
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