Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU32071

Buffer overflow in LibRaw - CVE-2017-6886

Published: May 16, 2017 / Updated: July 28, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU32071

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6886

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: LibRaw LLC

Affected software:
LibRaw

Detailed vulnerability description

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.

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