Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.6-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.09% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-TIFF-18022541
  • published20 Jul 2026
  • disclosed8 May 2018

Introduced: 8 May 2018

CVE-2018-10801  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

TIFFClientOpen in tif_unix.c in LibTIFF 3.8.2 has memory leaks, as demonstrated by bmp2tiff.