SB2017070108 - Fedora 26 update for mingw-LibRaw



SB2017070108 - Fedora 26 update for mingw-LibRaw

Published: July 1, 2017 Updated: April 24, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2017070108
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6886)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

An error within the "parse_tiff_ifd()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions before 0.18.2 can be exploited to corrupt memory.


2) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6887)

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.