NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtiff5-32bit package, versions <4.0.9-5.17.1
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EPSS
0.21% (60th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES150-LIBTIFF532BIT-2758872
- published 14 Apr 2022
- disclosed 27 Nov 2018
Introduced: 27 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-18661 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.0 libtiff5-32bit to version 4.0.9-5.17.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff5-32bit package and not the libtiff5-32bit package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 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.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18661.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113672
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2819
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105762
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00027.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/