CVE-2018-17101

HIGH

LibTIFF 4.0.9 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105370
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2807
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00019.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0054
EPSS Percentile 67.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (7)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.10
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
libtiff/libtiff 4.0.9
Published Sep 16, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026