NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.8-2+deb9u5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.35% (72nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-TIFF-405174
- published 2 Dec 2018
- disclosed 12 Nov 2018
Introduced: 12 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-19210 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
tiff
to version 4.0.8-2+deb9u5 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:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c that will lead to a denial of service attack, as demonstrated by tiffset.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19210
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/5
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4670
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00026.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C6IL2QFKE6MGVUTOPU2UUWITTE36KRDF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TX5UEYHGMTNEHJB4FHE7HCJ75UQDNKGB/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-25
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2820
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155095/Slackware-Security-Advisory-libtiff-Updates.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00041.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105932
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-19210
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-1/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C6IL2QFKE6MGVUTOPU2UUWITTE36KRDF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TX5UEYHGMTNEHJB4FHE7HCJ75UQDNKGB/