USN-3492-1: LibRaw vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3492-1

22nd November, 2017

libraw vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 17.10
• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

LibRaw could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

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 version:

Ubuntu 17.10:

libraw16 0.18.2-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 17.04:

libraw16 0.18.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

libraw15 0.17.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

libraw9 0.15.4-1ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

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

References

CVE-2015-3885, CVE-2015-8366, CVE-2015-8367, CVE-2017-13735, CVE-2017-14265, CVE-2017-14348, CVE-2017-14608, CVE-2017-6886, CVE-2017-6887

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