Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions <4.0.9-5.14.1
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- published14 Apr 2022
- disclosed23 Oct 2018
Introduced: 23 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-17101 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.0 libtiff-devel to version 4.0.9-5.14.1 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.
An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There are two out-of-bounds writes in cpTags in tools/tiff2bw.c and tools/pal2rgb.c, which can cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17101.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1108627
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2807
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105370
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/33/diffs?commit_id=f1b94e8a3ba49febdd3361c0214a1d1149251577
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00019.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349