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CVE-2015-8366 (GCVE-0-2015-8366)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-14 15:19 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:13
VLAI
Summary
Array index error in smal_decode_segment function in LibRaw before 0.17.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause memory errors and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to indexes.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-11-24 00:00
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