High
Security advisory
There is an illegal READ memory access at caca/dither.c (function get_rgba_default) in libcaca 0.99.beta19 for 24bpp data.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-20547
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
There is an illegal READ memory access at caca/dither.c (function get_rgba_default) in libcaca 0.99.beta19 for 24bpp data.
osv:CVE-2018-20547
Complete source record
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