An error within the "leaf_hdr_load_raw()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) can be exploited to trigger a NULL pointer dereference. References: https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-03
Created LibRaw tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-6 [bug 1591900] Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591899] Created dcraw tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591901] Created libkdcraw tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591903] Created mingw-LibRaw tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591902] Created rawtherapee tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591898]
Upstream fix: https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/commit/9f26ce37f5be86ea11bfc6831366558650b1f6ff
Statement: This issue did not affect the versions of dcraw as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as they did not include the vulnerable code. This issue did not affect the versions of LibRaw as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as they did not include the vulnerable code.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:3065 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3065
This was fixed in LibRaw-0.18.8 and LibRaw-0.19.0-Beta1.