Libraw
CVE-2018-5800
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Off-by-one prevention
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| Impact | CVSS score of 6.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the medium-severity affected system. |
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An off-by-one error within the "LibRaw::kodak_ycbcr_load_raw()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.7 can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-193. An off-by-one error within the "LibRaw::kodak_ycbcr_load_raw()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.7 can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and subsequently cause a crash. Affected products include: Libraw, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation, Canonical Ubuntu Linux. Version information: prior to 0.18.7.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
An off-by-one error within the "LibRaw::kodak_ycbcr_load_raw()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.7 can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and subsequently cause a crash.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
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Multiple double free vulnerabilities in the LibRaw::unpack function in libraw_cxx.cpp in LibRaw before 0.15.2 allow cont
A buffer overflow vulnerability in LibRaw version < 20.0 LibRaw::GetNormalizedModel in src/metadata/normalize_model.cpp
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Heap-based buffer overflow in LibRaw's lossless JPEG processing (commits 0b56545 and d20315b) allows unauthenticated rem
A flaw was found in LibRaw. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authenticat
LibRaw before 0.20-Beta3 has an out-of-bounds write in parse_exif() in metadata\exif_gps.cpp via an unrecognized AtomNam
LibRaw::raw2image() in libraw_cxx.cpp has a heap-based buffer overflow. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerabi
LibRaw::copy_bayer in libraw_cxx.cpp in LibRaw 0.19.1 has a NULL pointer dereference. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5),
LibRaw::raw2image in libraw_cxx.cpp in LibRaw 0.19.1 has a NULL pointer dereference. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), t
A Stack-based Buffer Overflow was discovered in xtrans_interpolate in internal/dcraw_common.cpp in LibRaw before 0.18.3.
An error within the "parse_tiff_ifd()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions before 0.18.2 can be expl
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