LibRaw vulnerabilities
Summary
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 Affected Ubuntu releases: 26.04, 24.04, 22.04. CVEs: CVE-2026-24450, CVE-2026-20884, CVE-2026-5342, CVE-2026-24660, CVE-2026-20889, CVE-2026-21413.
- Ubuntu 26.04
- Ubuntu 24.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
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Mitigation checklist
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 3 hours ago·verify at source
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