Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.9+git181026-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.77% (81st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-TIFF-406196
- published 25 Sep 2018
- disclosed 16 Sep 2018
Introduced: 16 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-17101 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
tiff
to version 4.0.9+git181026-1 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.
An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There are two out-of-bounds writes in cpTags in tools/tiff2bw.c and tools/pal2rgb.c, which can cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17101
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17101
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00019.html
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2807
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/33/diffs?commit_id=f1b94e8a3ba49febdd3361c0214a1d1149251577
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105370
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-17101
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/