NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libraw package, versions <0.20.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.56% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-LIBRAW-18388420
  • published29 Jul 2026
  • disclosed16 Sept 2020

Introduced: 16 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-24890  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest libraw to version 0.20.1 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

libraw 20.0 has a null pointer dereference vulnerability in parse_tiff_ifd in src/metadata/tiff.cpp, which may result in context-dependent arbitrary code execution. Note: this vulnerability occurs only if you compile the software in a certain way

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1