Out-of-Bounds Affecting libraw package, versions [,0.18.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.49% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBRAW-2369261
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Dec 2018

CVE-2017-16909  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libraw to version 0.18.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. An error related to the "LibRaw::panasonic_load_raw()" function (dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.6 can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and subsequently cause a crash via a specially crafted TIFF image.

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