Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libtiff5 package, versions <4.0.9-5.14.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBTIFF5-2759787
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed23 Oct 2018

Introduced: 23 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-10779  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libtiff5 to version 4.0.9-5.14.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff5 package and not the libtiff5 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

TIFFWriteScanline in tif_write.c in LibTIFF 3.8.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read, as demonstrated by bmp2tiff.