Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libtiff5 package, versions <4.0.9-5.9.1
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EPSS
0.31% (71st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES150-LIBTIFF5-2763880
- published 14 Apr 2022
- disclosed 5 Jul 2018
Introduced: 5 Jul 2018
CVE-2018-8905 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.0 libtiff5 to version 4.0.9-5.9.1 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.
In LibTIFF 4.0.9, a heap-based buffer overflow occurs in the function LZWDecodeCompat in tif_lzw.c via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2ps.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8905.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1086408
- https://github.com/halfbitteam/POCs/tree/master/libtiff-4.08_tiff2ps_heap_overflow
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2780
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00009.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00008.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00002.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/58a898cb4459055bb488ca815c23b880c242a27d
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
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