NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions <4.0.9-5.20.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.28% (69th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES150-LIBTIFFDEVEL-2758381
- published 14 Apr 2022
- disclosed 7 Dec 2018
Introduced: 7 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-19210 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.0 libtiff-devel to version 4.0.9-5.20.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-devel package and not the libtiff-devel package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.
In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c that will lead to a denial of service attack, as demonstrated by tiffset.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19210.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108606
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1115717
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2820
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105932
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00026.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00041.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TX5UEYHGMTNEHJB4FHE7HCJ75UQDNKGB/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C6IL2QFKE6MGVUTOPU2UUWITTE36KRDF/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/5
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155095/Slackware-Security-Advisory-libtiff-Updates.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-25
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4670
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C6IL2QFKE6MGVUTOPU2UUWITTE36KRDF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TX5UEYHGMTNEHJB4FHE7HCJ75UQDNKGB/