Out-of-bounds read in LibRaw - CVE-2018-10529

 

Out-of-bounds read in LibRaw - CVE-2018-10529

Published: May 10, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12525
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10529
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the X3F parser due to an out-of-bounds read condition in the X3F property table list implementation in the libraw_x3f.cpp and libraw_cxx.cppfiles. A local attacker can execute a specially crafted file and cause the service to crash.

Affected software

LibRaw
Arch Linux
Fedora
libraw (Alpine package)
LibRaw
mingw-LibRaw

How to mitigate CVE-2018-10529

Update to version 0.18.10.

libraw (Alpine package) - update to 0.18.13-r0
LibRaw - addressed in versions 0.18.10-1.fc26, 0.18.10-1.fc27, 0.18.10-1.fc28, 0.18.11-1.fc26, 0.18.11-1.fc27, 0.18.11-1.fc28
mingw-LibRaw - addressed in versions 0.18.10-1.fc27, 0.18.10-1.fc28

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