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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:16:30 +0100
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Crashes and memory safety bugs in dcraw

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 09:22:17AM +0100, Hanno Böck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> dcraw is a tool to process raw images from digital cameras.
> It easily crashes with various issues (tested version 9.28.0). This was
> very shallow testing (afl fuzzing with random inputs, not starting with
> valid images), I assume there's much more. I reported those a long time
> ago to its author, he didn't seem interested in fixing such issues.
> 
> Some applications use dcraw automatically to parse images (gthumb,
> kphotoalbum, kde thumbnailers, gwenview).
> 
> Input samples are base64.

One thing to look at replacement of dcraw is probably libraw, which is more
active. (It used the dcraw sources originally.)

Ciao, Marcus

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