Out-of-bounds Read Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.6-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-TIFF-405596
  • published7 May 2018
  • disclosed7 May 2018

Introduced: 7 May 2018

CVE-2018-10779  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 tiff to version 4.0.6-3 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.

TIFFWriteScanline in tif_write.c in LibTIFF 3.8.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read, as demonstrated by bmp2tiff.