Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 619
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 619

Mageia: 2020-0368 Security Advisory for LibRaw Memory Management Issue

mageia
Calendar Grey September 17, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revised libraw editions resolve a major security vulnerability in Mageia related to memory oversight. Find further information within.
LibRaw before 0.20-RC1 lacks a thumbnail size range check

Summary

LibRaw before 0.20-RC1 lacks a thumbnail size range check. This affects decoders/unpack_thumb.cpp, postprocessing/mem_image.cpp, and utils/thumb_utils.cpp. For example, malloc(sizeof(libraw_processed_image_t)+T.tlength) occurs without validating T.tlength. (CVE-2020-15503)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26933

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/DNGDWTO45TU4KGND75EUUEGUMNSOYC7H/

- - - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-15503

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/libraw-0.19.2-1.1.mga7

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Publication date: 17 Sep 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0368.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-15503

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Related News

Your message here