NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.8-2+deb9u4
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-TIFF-406183
- published 24 Feb 2018
- disclosed 24 Feb 2018
Introduced: 24 Feb 2018
CVE-2018-7456 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
A NULL Pointer Dereference occurs in the function TIFFPrintDirectory in tif_print.c in LibTIFF 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 3.9.6, 3.9.7, 4.0.0alpha4, 4.0.0alpha5, 4.0.0alpha6, 4.0.0beta7, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4beta, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8 and 4.0.9 when using the tiffinfo tool to print crafted TIFF information, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-18013. (This affects an earlier part of the TIFFPrintDirectory function that was not addressed by the CVE-2017-18013 patch.)
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7456
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/be4c85b16e8801a16eec25e80eb9f3dd6a96731b
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7456
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00010.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00002.html
- https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/libtiff
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2778
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2051
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-7456
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/