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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5819: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-5819: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
12/13/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libraw

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