High
Security advisory
A type confusion error within the "unpacked_load_raw()" function within LibRaw versions prior to 0.19.1 (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) can be exploited to trigger an infinite loop.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-5817
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A type confusion error within the "unpacked_load_raw()" function within LibRaw versions prior to 0.19.1 (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) can be exploited to trigger an infinite loop.
osv:CVE-2018-5817
Complete source record
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