SB2020070228 - Denial of service in LibRaw
Published: July 2, 2020 Updated: July 27, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020070228
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-15503)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in "decoders/unpack_thumb.cpp", "postprocessing/mem_image.cpp" and u"tils/thumb_utils.cpp". A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00075.html
- https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/commit/20ad21c0d87ca80217aee47533d91e633ce1864d
- https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/compare/0.20-Beta3...0.20-RC1
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7HM2DS6HA4YZREI3BYGS75M6D76WMW62/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CSXAJKZ4VNDYVQULJNY4XDPWHIJDTB4P/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DNGDWTO45TU4KGND75EUUEGUMNSOYC7H/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QCVKD7PTO7UQAVUTBHJAKBKYLPQQGAMZ/
- https://www.libraw.org/news/libraw-0-20-rc1