libraw vulnerabilities

8 May 2018

libraw vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 17.10
• 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 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)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

libraw16 - 0.18.8-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 17.10

libraw16 - 0.18.2-2ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libraw15 - 0.17.1-1ubuntu0.3

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-2018-10528
• CVE-2018-10529