CVE-2018-19210

medium

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c that will lead to a denial of service attack, as demonstrated by tiffset.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4670

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-25

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TX5UEYHGMTNEHJB4FHE7HCJ75UQDNKGB/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C6IL2QFKE6MGVUTOPU2UUWITTE36KRDF/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00026.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105932

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00041.html

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/5

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155095/Slackware-Security-Advisory-libtiff-Updates.html

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2820

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-11-12

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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