NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions <0:4.0.3-32.el7
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- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 24 Feb 2018
Introduced: 24 Feb 2018
CVE-2018-7456 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:7
libtiff-devel
to version 0:4.0.3-32.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2053
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-devel
package and not the libtiff-devel
package as distributed by RHEL
.
See How to fix?
for RHEL:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
A NULL Pointer Dereference occurs in the function TIFFPrintDirectory in tif_print.c in 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 when using the tiffinfo tool to print crafted TIFF information, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-18013. (This affects an earlier part of the TIFFPrintDirectory function that was not addressed by the CVE-2017-18013 patch.)
References
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/be4c85b16e8801a16eec25e80eb9f3dd6a96731b
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7456
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2778
- https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/libtiff
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00010.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00002.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/