CVE 7.8 HIGH

libcaca: Heap OOB write in canvas import functions caused by int overflow_CVE-2026-42046

7.8 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

libcaca is a colour ASCII art library. In 0.99.beta20 and earlier, an integer overflow vulnerability in libcaca's canvas import functionality allows an attacker to cause a controlled heap out-of-bounds write (heap overflow) by supplying a crafted file in the "caca" format. Depending on the build configuration and memory allocator, this may lead to memory corruption or remote code execution. This is the same vulnerability as CVE-2021-3410 but the fix at that time was not fully correct. Commit fb77acff9ba6bb01d53940da34fb10f20b156a23 fixes this vulnerability.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-42046
Source GitHub_M
Published May 11, 2026 at 21:23

Affected Product

Vendor cacalabs
Product libcaca
Version <= 0.99.beta20
Affected Versions cacalabs libcaca <= 0.99.beta20

CWE Classification

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