Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.9+git181026-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
25.7% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-TIFF-406066
  • published28 Oct 2018
  • disclosed22 Oct 2018

Introduced: 22 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18557  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 tiff to version 4.0.9+git181026-1 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.

LibTIFF 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 3.9.6, 3.9.7, 4.0.0alpha4, 4.0.0alpha5, 4.0.0alpha6, 4.0.0beta7, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4beta, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8 and 4.0.9 (with JBIG enabled) decodes arbitrarily-sized JBIG into a buffer, ignoring the buffer size, which leads to a tif_jbig.c JBIGDecode out-of-bounds write.