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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-16910

An error within the "LibRaw::xtrans_interpolate()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.6 can be exploited to cause an invalid read memory access and subsequently a Denial of Service condition.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:11 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-16910

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 Dec 2018, 22:29 UTC

An error within the "LibRaw::xtrans_interpolate()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.6 can be exploited to cause an invalid read memory access and subsequently a Denial of Service condition.

osv:CVE-2017-16910
Complete source record
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