CVE-2018-5819 (GCVE-0-2018-5819)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-02-20 18:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 04:29
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Summary
An error within the "parse_sinar_ia()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) within LibRaw versions prior to 0.19.1 can be exploited to exhaust available CPU resources.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • DoS (Denial of Service) via CPU resource exhaustion
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Flexera Software LLC LibRaw Affected: 0.19.0 and earlier
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Date Public
2018-12-13 00:00
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