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CVE-2023-1729

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-05-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 37, 38
• LibRaw: before 0.21.2 — fixed in 0.21.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: LibRaw 0.21.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188240
• https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/issues/557
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00025.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AGZ6XF5WTPJ4GLXQ62JVRDZSVSJHXNQU/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E5ZJ3UBTJBZHNPJQFOSGM5L7WAHHE2GY/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-08
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5412
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188240
• https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/issues/557
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00025.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AGZ6XF5WTPJ4GLXQ62JVRDZSVSJHXNQU/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E5ZJ3UBTJBZHNPJQFOSGM5L7WAHHE2GY/

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