NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.9-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-TIFF-405636
  • published1 Jan 2018
  • disclosed1 Jan 2018

Introduced: 1 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-18013  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 tiff to version 4.0.9-3 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.

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a Null-Pointer Dereference in the tif_print.c TIFFPrintDirectory function, as demonstrated by a tiffinfo crash.