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Fedora 31 Update: Important Fix for LibRaw Critical Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 18, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Upgrade notice for Fedora 31 rectifying LibRaw buffer overflow vulnerability linked to CVE-2020-15503; complete installation instructions provided.
Fix CVE-2020-15503

Summary

LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo

cameras (CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF, DNG, and others).

LibRaw is based on the source codes of the dcraw utility, where part of

drawbacks have already been eliminated and part will be fixed in future.

Fix CVE-2020-15503

* Mon Aug 10 2020 Debarshi Ray - 0.19.5-4

- Ensure that the patch for CVE-2020-15503 gets applied

[ 1 ] Bug #1853478 - CVE-2020-15503 LibRaw: lack of thumbnail size range check can lead to buffer overflow [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1853478

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-c6fa12cfb1' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 0.19.5
Release: 4.fc31
Summary: Library for reading RAW files obtained from digital photo cameras

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