CVE-2021-30498

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-05-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 34, 35, 36
Libcaca Project Libcaca: 0.99-beta14, 0.99-beta15, 0.99-beta16, 0.99-beta17, 0.99-beta18, 0.99-beta19

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1948675
https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca/issues/53
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00004.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6WFGYICNTMNDNMDDUV4G2RYFB5HNJCOV/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PC7EGOEQ5C4OD66ZUJJIIYEXBTZOCMZX/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZSBCRN6EGQJUVOSD4OEEQ6XORHEM2CUL/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1948675
https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca/issues/53
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00004.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/07/msg00019.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6WFGYICNTMNDNMDDUV4G2RYFB5HNJCOV/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PC7EGOEQ5C4OD66ZUJJIIYEXBTZOCMZX/

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