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Fedora 20: 2015-8671 Critical: dcraw Buffer Overflow Threat

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The recent patch addresses a critical memory overflow vulnerability in dcraw on Fedora 20, bolstering system safety while introducing compatibility for Canon EOS 5DS models.
This update contains a fix for a bug which could cause dcraw write past array boundaries

Summary

This package contains dcraw, a command line tool to decode raw image data

downloaded from digital cameras.

Update Information:

This update contains a fix for a bug which could cause dcraw write past array boundaries.

Additionally, it updates dcraw to version 9,25.0 which contains updated color matrices and supports the Canon EOS 5DS.

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Change Log

* Wed May 20 2015 Nils Philippsen - 9.25.0-2 - add Provides: bundled(dcraw) - don't manually specify, clean buildroot * Wed May 20 2015 Nils Philippsen - 9.25.0-1 - version 9.25.0 - remove unnecessary check from CVE-2013-1438 patch - avoid writing past array boundaries when reading certain raw formats (CVE-2015-3885) * Wed Apr 8 2015 Nils Philippsen - 9.24.4-1 - version 9.24.4 * Sat Feb 14 2015 Nils Philippsen - 9.23.0-1 - version 9.23.0 * Sat Aug 16 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 9.22-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild * Mon Jun 30 2014 Nils Philippsen - 9.22-1 - version 9.22 * Sat Jun 7 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 9.21-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild * Tue May 6 2014 Nils Philippsen - 9.21-1 - report lcms2 errors* Mon May 5 2014 Nils Philippsen - 9.21-1 - version 9.21 * Sat Apr 26 2014 Nils Philippsen - 9.20-2 - new upstream tarball with unchanged version number (RCS id 1.461 instead of 1.458), obsoletes lcms2 patch * Wed Jan 15 2014 Nils Philippsen - 9.20-1 - version 9.20 * Fri Dec 6 2013 Nils Philippsen - 9.19-4 - harden against corrupt input files (CVE-2013-1438)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1221249 - CVE-2015-3885 dcraw: input sanitization flaw leading to buffer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221249

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update dcraw' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: dcraw
Product: Fedora 20
Version: 9.25.0
Release: 2.fc20
URL: Summary : Tool for decoding raw image data from digital cameras

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