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CVE-2018-19567 json

A floating point exception in parse_tiff_ifd in dcraw through 9.28 could be used by attackers able to supply malicious files to crash an ap…

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-11256

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 60%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A floating point exception in parse_tiff_ifd in dcraw through 9.28 could be used by attackers able to supply malicious files to crash an application that bundles the dcraw code.

Patch / fix

  • dcraw SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 9.28.0-3.3.1
  • dcraw openSUSE Leap 15.3 9.28.0-150000.3.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1749-1SUSE-SU-2022:1277-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-19567 updated cvss 3.3

dcraw: A floating point exception in parse_tiff_ifd resulting in a denial of service

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 dcraw Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 dcraw
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 dcraw Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 dcraw
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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