CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-17000
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
A NULL pointer dereference in the function _TIFFmemcmp at tif_unix.c (called from TIFFWriteDirectoryTagTransferfunction) in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows an attacker to cause a denial-of-service through a crafted tiff file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable tiffcp.
Affected configurations
• libtiff libtiff 4.0.9
• debian debian linux 8.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2811 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00041.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105342 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00026.html Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4670 www.debian.org
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2811 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00041.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105342 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00026.html Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4670 www.debian.org