CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-24890

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 16, 2020 | Modified: Apr 11, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.6 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

libraw 20.0 has a null pointer dereference vulnerability in parse_tiff_ifd in src/metadata/tiff.cpp, which may result in context-dependent arbitrary code execution. Note: this vulnerability occurs only if you compile the software in a certain way

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libraw Libraw 0.20.0 (including) 0.20.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References