Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.9-6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-TIFF-405331
  • published22 Mar 2018
  • disclosed22 Mar 2018

Introduced: 22 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-8905  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 tiff to version 4.0.9-6 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.

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.

CVSS Scores

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