CVE-2017-6890

Publication date 15 May 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A boundary error within the "foveon_load_camf()" function (dcraw_foveon.c) when initializing a huffman table in LibRaw-demosaic-pack-GPL2 before 0.18.2 can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libraw	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

libraw demosaic extension isn't packaged in ubuntu

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libraw	Upstream: 194f592

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H