Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
21.48% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-TIFF-406069
  • published28 Oct 2018
  • disclosed22 Oct 2018

Introduced: 22 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18557  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 tiff to version 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 (with JBIG enabled) decodes arbitrarily-sized JBIG into a buffer, ignoring the buffer size, which leads to a tif_jbig.c JBIGDecode out-of-bounds write.