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USN-3639-1: LibRaw vulnerabilities

8 May 2018

Several security issues were fixed in LibRaw.

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Releases

Packages

  • libraw - raw image decoder library

Details

It was discovered that LibRaw incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-10528)

It was discovered that LibRaw incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this to obtain sensitive information.
(CVE-2018-10529)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 17.10
Ubuntu 16.04

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