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high 8.8

CVE-2018-5810 json

An error within the "rollei_load_raw()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.9 can be exploited to cause a…

published 2018-12-07 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-17577

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An error within the "rollei_load_raw()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.9 can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and subsequently cause a crash.

Patch / fix

  • libraw libraw 0.18.9
  • libraw Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.18.11-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5810

  • libraw Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.15.4-1ubuntu0.3
  • libraw Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.17.1-1ubuntu0.4
  • libraw Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 0.18.8-1ubuntu0.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5810

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libraw SLED 12 SP3, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP3, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3 0.15.4-21.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3343-1

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-2018-5810 updated cvss 5.3

libRaw: heap-based buffer overflow in rollei_load_raw in internal/dcraw_common.cpp

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 LibRaw
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 LibRaw
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

2.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a LibRaw

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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