CVE-2018-17101

high

Description

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://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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-09-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High