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CVE-2018-20544 (GCVE-0-2018-20544)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-28 03:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 12:05
VLAI
Summary
There is floating point exception at caca/dither.c (function caca_dither_bitmap) in libcaca 0.99.beta19.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3860-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652627 x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3860-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2018-12-27 00:00
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