Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1631-1 libcaca -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 09 Jan 2019
- Affected Packages:
- libcaca
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 917807.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-20544, CVE-2018-20546, CVE-2018-20547, CVE-2018-20549. - More information:
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Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libcaca, a graphics library that outputs text: integer overflows, floating point exceptions or invalid memory reads may lead to a denial-of-service (application crash) if a malformed image file is processed.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, these problems have been fixed in version 0.99.beta19-2+deb8u1.We recommend that you upgrade your libcaca packages.
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