CVE-2020-15503 (GCVE-0-2020-15503)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-02 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:15
VLAI
Summary
LibRaw before 0.20-RC1 lacks a thumbnail size range check. This affects decoders/unpack_thumb.cpp, postprocessing/mem_image.cpp, and utils/thumb_utils.cpp. For example, malloc(sizeof(libraw_processed_image_t)+T.tlength) occurs without validating T.tlength.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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