CVE-2018-5817 Denial of service in LibRaw

What is CVE-2018-5817?

CVE-2018-5817 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 20 Feb 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A type confusion error within the "unpacked_load_raw()" function within LibRaw versions prior to 0.19.1 (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) can be exploited to trigger an infinite loop.

Weakness: CWE-704

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5817?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Libraw Libraw.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5817?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2018-5817 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5817 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5817, GHSA-hcr8-826v-778q, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5817.