# CVE-2020-15503: LibRaw before 0.20-RC1 lacks a thumbnail size range check.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-07-02 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

LibRaw before 0.20-RC1 lacks a thumbnail size range check. This affects decoders/unpack_thumb.cpp, postprocessing/mem_image.cpp, and utils/thumb_utils.cpp. For example, malloc(sizeof(libraw_processed_image_t)+T.tlength) occurs without validating T.tlength.

## What to do

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## References

- https://www.libraw.org/news/libraw-0-20-rc1
- https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/compare/0.20-Beta3...0.20-RC1
- https://github.com/LibRaw/LibRaw/commit/20ad21c0d87ca80217aee47533d91e633ce1864d
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DNGDWTO45TU4KGND75EUUEGUMNSOYC7H/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CSXAJKZ4VNDYVQULJNY4XDPWHIJDTB4P/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QCVKD7PTO7UQAVUTBHJAKBKYLPQQGAMZ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7HM2DS6HA4YZREI3BYGS75M6D76WMW62/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00075.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00001.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y34ALB34P3NGQXLF7BG7R6DGRX6XL2JN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YZETDVPZQWZWVGIG6JTIEKP5KPVMUE7Y/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00042.html

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