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...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-5804
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1591880 1591881 1591882 1591883 1591884 1591885 1610499
Blocks: 1591907
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Reported: 2018-06-15 18:05 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:07 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

Fixed In Version: LibRaw 0.18.8
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:29:15 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-15 18:05:04 UTC 
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 18:05:33 UTC 
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 11:25:04 UTC 
Upstream fix:

https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/commit/9f26ce37f5be86ea11bfc6831366558650b1f6ff
Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2018-07-31 19:06:27 UTC 
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.
Comment 5 Debarshi Ray 2018-11-22 17:14:08 UTC 
This was fixed in LibRaw-0.18.8 and LibRaw-0.19.0-Beta1.
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