USN-8522-1: LibRaw vulnerabilities

USN-8522-1: LibRaw vulnerabilities

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/rss.xml / Thu, 07/09/2026 - 19:04
It was discovered that LibRaw incorrectly handled certain Nikon RAW image files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LibRaw to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-5342) It was discovered that LibRaw had an integer overflow in its DNG image loader. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LibRaw to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-20884) It was discovered that LibRaw incorrectly handled certain X3F thumbnail data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LibRaw to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-20889) It was discovered that LibRaw had a heap-based buffer overflow in its lossless JPEG image loader. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LibRaw to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-21413) It was discovered that LibRaw had an integer overflow in its uncompressed floating-point DNG image loader. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LibRaw to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 25.04. (CVE-2026-24450) It was discovered that LibRaw had a heap-based buffer overflow in its X3F Huffman decoder. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LibRaw to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-24660)

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