CVE-2018-5805

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2018-03-14
CWE:
CWE-121
Bugzilla:
1591887: CVE-2018-5805 LibRaw: Stack-based buffer overflow in quicktake_100_load_raw() function in internal/dcraw_common.cpp
LibRaw is vulnerable to stack-based buffer overflow in internal/dcraw_common.cpp:quicktake_100_load_raw() function when processing specially-crafted RAW data. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to cause an arbitrary code execution or denial of service.

Find out more about CVE-2018-5805 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of dcraw as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as they did not include the vulnerable code.

This issue affects the versions of dcraw as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Moderate, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 7
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 dcraw Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 LibRaw Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libkdcraw Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 dcraw Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 dcraw Not affected

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