What is CVE-2018-19568?

CVE-2018-19568 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dcraw Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-11-26.

How severe is CVE-2018-19568?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Dcraw Project

CVE-2018-19568

A floating point exception in kodak_radc_load_raw in dcraw through 9.28 could be used by attackers able to supply malicious files to crash an application that bundles the dcraw code.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2018-11-26 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (58.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 59th percentile — 58.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Dcraw Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/165 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/171 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-19568?: CVE-2018-19568 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dcraw Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-11-26.
How severe is CVE-2018-19568?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.