Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting libtiff-tools package, versions <0:4.0.3-32.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBTIFFTOOLS-1512109
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed25 Oct 2018

Introduced: 25 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18661  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 libtiff-tools 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-tools package and not the libtiff-tools package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function LZWDecode in the file tif_lzw.c.