NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libtiff package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBTIFF-2317858
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed26 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18661  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libtiff.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function LZWDecode in the file tif_lzw.c.

CVSS Scores

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