NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions <4.0.9-5.9.1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES150-LIBTIFFDEVEL-2763404
- published 14 Apr 2022
- disclosed 5 Jul 2018
Introduced: 5 Jul 2018
CVE-2018-7456 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.0 libtiff-devel to version 4.0.9-5.9.1 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.
A NULL Pointer Dereference occurs in the function TIFFPrintDirectory in tif_print.c in LibTIFF 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 3.9.6, 3.9.7, 4.0.0alpha4, 4.0.0alpha5, 4.0.0alpha6, 4.0.0beta7, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4beta, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8 and 4.0.9 when using the tiffinfo tool to print crafted TIFF information, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-18013. (This affects an earlier part of the TIFFPrintDirectory function that was not addressed by the CVE-2017-18013 patch.)
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7456.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1074317
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1082825
- https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/libtiff
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2778
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00010.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/be4c85b16e8801a16eec25e80eb9f3dd6a96731b
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2051
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053