Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3950-1 libraw -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 21 Aug 2017
- Affected Packages:
- libraw
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 864183.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-6886, CVE-2017-6887. - More information:
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Hossein Lotfi and Jakub Jirasek from Secunia Research have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in LibRaw, a library for reading RAW images. An attacker could cause a memory corruption leading to a DoS (Denial of Service) with craft KDC or TIFF file.
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 0.16.0-9+deb8u3.
For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.17.2-6+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libraw packages.