Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title LibRaw vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-3989-1 First vendor Publication 2019-05-21
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-05-21
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
Calculate full CVSS 2.0 Vectors scores

Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 18.10 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in LibRaw.

Software Description: - libraw: raw image decoder library

Details:

It was discovered that LibRaw incorrectly handled photo files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted photo file, a remote attacker could cause applications linked against LibRaw to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.10:
libraw16 0.18.13-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
libraw16 0.18.8-1ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libraw15 0.17.1-1ubuntu0.5

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3989-1
CVE-2018-20337, CVE-2018-20363, CVE-2018-20364, CVE-2018-20365,
CVE-2018-5817, CVE-2018-5818, CVE-2018-5819

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libraw/0.18.13-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libraw/0.18.8-1ubuntu0.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libraw/0.17.1-1ubuntu0.5

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3989-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
33 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
33 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
17 % CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast
17 % CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 25
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-801432b551.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

If you want to see full details history, please login or register.
0
Date Informations
2019-05-21 17:18:46
  • First insertion