USN-3615-1: LibRaw vulnerabilities

libraw vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 17.10
• 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 versions:

Ubuntu 17.10

libraw16 - 0.18.2-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libraw15 - 0.17.1-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libraw9 - 0.15.4-1ubuntu0.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

• CVE-2017-16909
• CVE-2017-16910
• CVE-2018-5800
• CVE-2018-5801
• CVE-2018-5802

from Ubuntu Security Notices https://ift.tt/2q1YGAw