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Ubuntu: USN-3492-1 (CVE-2017-6887): LibRaw vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3492-1 (CVE-2017-6887): LibRaw vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/16/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/23/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

A boundary error within the "parse_tiff_ifd()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions before 0.18.2 can be exploited to cause a memory corruption via e.g. a specially crafted KDC file with model set to "DSLR-A100" and containing multiple sequences of 0x100 and 0x14A TAGs.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libraw15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libraw16
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libraw9

References

  • USN-3492-1
  • DSA-3950
  • 98592
  • CVE-2017-6887

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