Stack-based buffer overflow in LibRaw - CVE-2018-10528
Published: May 10, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12526
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10528
CWE-ID: CWE-121
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: LibRaw LLC
Affected software:
LibRaw
LibRaw
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists in the X3F parser due to a stack-based buffer overflow condition in the utf2char function, as defined in the libraw_cxx.cpp file. A local attacker can execute a specially crafted file and cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists in the X3F parser due to a stack-based buffer overflow condition in the utf2char function, as defined in the libraw_cxx.cpp file. A local attacker can execute a specially crafted file and cause the service to crash.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-10528
Update to version 0.18.10.