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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-5819

An error within the "parse_sinar_ia()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) within LibRaw versions prior to 0.19.1 can be exploited to exhaust available CPU resources.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:05 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-5819

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Feb 2019, 18:29 UTC

An error within the "parse_sinar_ia()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) within LibRaw versions prior to 0.19.1 can be exploited to exhaust available CPU resources.

osv:CVE-2018-5819
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5819",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2018-5819",
    "summary": "An error within the \"parse_sinar_ia()\" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) within LibRaw versions prior to 0.19.1 can be exploited to exhaust available CPU resources.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-5819",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      ],
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          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:02.770359389Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3989-1/",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00036.html",
        "https://secuniaresearch.flexerasoftware.com/secunia_research/2018-27/",
        "https://www.libraw.org/news/libraw-0-19-2-release"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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                    "introduced": "8.0"
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440093,
  "published_at": "2019-02-20T18:29:00.757+00:00"
}