Medium
Security advisory
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
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-24890
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- 31 Oct 2026, 11:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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
osv:CVE-2020-24890
Complete source record
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