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GLSA-202312-08 : LibRaw: Heap Buffer Overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 187217

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202312-08 (LibRaw: Heap Buffer Overflow)

 - A flaw was found in LibRaw. A heap-buffer-overflow in raw2image_ex() caused by a maliciously crafted file may lead to an application crash. (CVE-2023-1729)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All LibRaw users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=media-libs/libraw-0.21.1-r1

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-08

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908041

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 187217

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202312-08.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 12/22/2023

Updated: 12/22/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1729

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:libraw, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-1729