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CVE-2018-17101

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There are two out-of-bounds writes in cpTags in tools/tiff2bw.c and tools/pal2

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.

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 0.00539
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write
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Affected Products & Versions

3
debian linuxall versions
libtiffall versions
canonical ubuntu linuxall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

8.8
HIGH · CVSS v3.0 · cve@mitre.org
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD16 Sep 2018 · 09:29 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Advisories

7
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:11461-1
usnUSN-3906-2
usnUSN-3864-1
rhsaRHSA-2019:2053Low
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2018:3391-1
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References & Sources

7
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2807Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105370Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/33/diffs?commit_id=f1b94e8a3ba49febdd3361c0214a1d1149251577PatchThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00019.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/
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