CVE-2018-5806: Libraw

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An error within the "leaf_hdr_load_raw()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.8 can be exploited to trigger a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Libraw Libraw: before 0.18.8 (fixed in 0.18.8)
• 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.