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CVE-2017-16909

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An error related to the "LibRaw::panasonic_load_raw()" function (dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.6 can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and subsequently cause a crash via a specially crafted TIFF image.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10
• LibRaw: before 0.18.6 — fixed in 0.18.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: LibRaw 0.18.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/blob/master/Changelog.txt
• https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/commit/f1394822a0152ceed77815eafa5cac4e8baab10a
• https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/advisories/76000/
• https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2017-19/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3615-1/
• https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/blob/master/Changelog.txt
• https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/commit/f1394822a0152ceed77815eafa5cac4e8baab10a
• https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/advisories/76000/
• https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2017-19/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3615-1/

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