Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libtiff5-32bit package, versions <4.0.9-5.9.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBTIFF532BIT-2763530
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed5 Jul 2018

Introduced: 5 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-8905  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libtiff5-32bit to version 4.0.9-5.9.1 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.

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.

CVSS Scores

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