Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libtiff-tools package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.76% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-LIBTIFFTOOLS-1938764
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed16 Sept 2018

Introduced: 16 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17101  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:8 libtiff-tools.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-tools package and not the libtiff-tools package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 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.