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CVE-2023-1729
A flaw was found in LibRaw. A heap-buffer-overflow in raw2image_ex() caused by a maliciously crafted file may lead to an application crash.
Medium6.5EPSS 1.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
A flaw was found in LibRaw. A heap-buffer-overflow in raw2image_ex() caused by a maliciously crafted file may lead to an application crash.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 46 days later
· 46 days later
Published
- 15 months later
· 15 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
LibRaw
- affected LibRaw 0.21.1
References (7)
- https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/issues/557 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2188240 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-b19f236bc7 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-88c87f6191 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230527 [SECURITY] [DLA 3433-1] libraw security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- DSA-5412 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- GLSA-202312-08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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