Mageia: 2019-0017 Moderate: dcraw NULL Pointer Crash Risk
mageia
January 6, 2019
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way dcraw processed images
Summary
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way dcraw processed
images. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash dcraw by
tricking it into processing crafted images (CVE-2018-5801).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23252
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/B4QRYU6SJD34FIOACDR2QA5F4C3CWPOB/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-CVE-2018-5801
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/dcraw-9.27.0-1.1.mga6
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Publication date: 06 Jan 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0017.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-CVE-2018-5801
Topics Covered
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