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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS USN-5715-1 Critical: LibRaw Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5716-1 addresses vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL library that impact multiple versions of Ubuntu.
Several security issues were fixed in LibRaw.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in LibRaw.

Software Description:

- libraw: raw image decoder library

Details:

It was discovered that LibRaw incorrectly handled photo files. If a user or

automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted photo

file, a remote attacker could cause applications linked against LibRaw to

crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary

code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue software update Ubuntu crash libraw

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   libraw19                        0.19.5-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
   libraw16                        0.18.8-1ubuntu0.4

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5715-1

CVE-2020-15503, CVE-2020-35530, CVE-2020-35531, CVE-2020-35532,

CVE-2020-35533

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November 07, 2022

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security issue software update Ubuntu crash libraw

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libraw/0.19.5-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libraw/0.18.8-1ubuntu0.4

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