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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1057-1 libraw -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

14 Aug 2017

Affected Packages:

libraw

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 864183.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-6886, CVE-2017-6887.

More information:

Some memory corruption bugs were discovered in libraw, a raw image decoder library, which could be triggered via maliciously crafted input files to cause denial of service or other unspecified impact.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 0.14.6-2+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libraw packages.

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