CVE-2018-5800: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An off-by-one error within the "LibRaw::kodak_ycbcr_load_raw()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.7 can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and subsequently cause a crash.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Libraw Libraw: before 0.18.7 (fixed in 0.18.7)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.