Resource Exhaustion Affecting libraw package, versions <0.19.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.64% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LIBRAW-323756
  • published23 Dec 2018
  • disclosed20 Feb 2019

Introduced: 23 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-5819  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable libraw to version 0.19.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libraw package and not the libraw package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

An error within the "parse_sinar_ia()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) within LibRaw versions prior to 0.19.1 can be exploited to exhaust available CPU resources.