Bug 1591879 – CVE-2018-5804 LibRaw: type confusion error in identify() function in internal/dcraw_common.cpp

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Bug 1591879 - (CVE-2018-5804) CVE-2018-5804 LibRaw: type confusion error in identify() function in internal/dcraw_common.cpp

Summary:	CVE-2018-5804 LibRaw: type confusion error in identify() function in internal...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-5804

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1591880 1591883 1591885 1591881 1591882 1591884 1610499
Blocks:	1591907
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Reported:	2018-06-15 14:05 EDT by Pedro Sampaio
Modified:	2018-09-26 19:55 EDT (History)
CC List:	15 users (show)

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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-15 14:05:04 EDT

A type confusion error within the "identify()" function
(internal/dcraw_common.cpp) can be exploited to trigger a division by
zero.

References:

https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-03

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-15 14:05:33 EDT

Created LibRaw tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1591885]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591880]


Created dcraw tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591882]


Created libkdcraw tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591883]


Created mingw-LibRaw tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591881]


Created rawtherapee tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1591884]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2018-07-27 07:25:04 EDT

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/commit/9f26ce37f5be86ea11bfc6831366558650b1f6ff

Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2018-07-31 15:06:27 EDT

Statement:

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 did not affect the versions of dcraw as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7 as they did not include the vulnerable code.

This issue did not affect the versions of libkdcraw as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as they did not include the vulnerable code.

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