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Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.8-2+deb9u4

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.31% (70th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high
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SUSE
5.3 medium
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Red Hat
4 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-TIFF-405330
  • published 22 Mar 2018
  • disclosed 22 Mar 2018
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Introduced: 22 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-8905 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-787 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 tiff to version 4.0.8-2+deb9u4 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, a heap-based buffer overflow occurs in the function LZWDecodeCompat in tif_lzw.c via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2ps.