Reachable Assertion Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.9-6
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.74% (81st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-TIFF-405431
- published 10 May 2018
- disclosed 10 May 2018
Introduced: 10 May 2018
CVE-2018-10963 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
tiff
to version 4.0.9-6 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff
package and not the tiff
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
The TIFFWriteDirectorySec() function in tif_dirwrite.c in LibTIFF through 4.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via a crafted file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-13726.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10963
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10963
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00002.html
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2795
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-10963
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/