NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kodi (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-KODI-1014044
- published29 Sept 2020
- disclosed16 Sept 2020
Introduced: 16 Sep 2020
CVE-2020-24890 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kodi package and not the kodi package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-24890
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EWHUZCRMGOC3QS6C65KWBM6ZJM25V6HI/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-05
- https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/issues/335
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EWHUZCRMGOC3QS6C65KWBM6ZJM25V6HI/