Alpine: libtiffxx, multiple tiff packages: security update to 4.0.9-r4 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400724

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- In LibTIFF 4.0.9, a heap-based buffer overflow occurs in the function LZWDecodeCompat in tif_lzw.c via a
crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2ps. (CVE-2018-8905)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400724

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8905

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8905

Detections

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