Medium
Security advisory
A type confusion error within the "identify()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.8 can be exploited to trigger a division by zero.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-5804
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A type confusion error within the "identify()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.8 can be exploited to trigger a division by zero.
osv:CVE-2018-5804
Complete source record
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