Critical
Security advisory
A boundary error within the "foveon_load_camf()" function (dcraw_foveon.c) when initializing a huffman table in LibRaw-demosaic-pack-GPL2 before 0.18.2 can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-6890
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A boundary error within the "foveon_load_camf()" function (dcraw_foveon.c) when initializing a huffman table in LibRaw-demosaic-pack-GPL2 before 0.18.2 can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow.
osv:CVE-2017-6890
Complete source record
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