CVE-2021-30498 (GCVE-0-2021-30498)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-26 00:00
Modified
2025-11-03 19:25
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
A flaw was found in libcaca. A heap buffer overflow in export.c in function export_tga might lead to memory corruption and other potential consequences.
References
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1948675 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca/issues/53 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00004.html
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6WFGYICNTMNDNMDDUV4G2RYFB5HNJCOV/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PC7EGOEQ5C4OD66ZUJJIIYEXBTZOCMZX/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZSBCRN6EGQJUVOSD4OEEQ6XORHEM2CUL/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1948675 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca/issues/53 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00004.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00019.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6WFGYICNTMNDNMDDUV4G2RYFB5HNJCOV/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PC7EGOEQ5C4OD66ZUJJIIYEXBTZOCMZX/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZSBCRN6EGQJUVOSD4OEEQ6XORHEM2CUL/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a libcaca Version: master
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