CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-18557
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-10-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
LibTIFF 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 3.9.6, 3.9.7, 4.0.0alpha4, 4.0.0alpha5, 4.0.0alpha6, 4.0.0beta7, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4beta, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8 and 4.0.9 (with JBIG enabled) decodes arbitrarily-sized JBIG into a buffer, ignoring the buffer size, which leads to a tif_jbig.c JBIGDecode out-of-bounds write.
Affected configurations
• libtiff libtiff 4.0.9
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• 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-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053 access.redhat.com
- https://github.com/Hack-Me/Pocs_for_Multi_Versions/tree/main/CVE-2018-18557 github.com
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/681748ec2f5ce88da5f9fa6831e1653e46af8a66 gitlab.com
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/38 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-15 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45694/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053 access.redhat.com
- https://github.com/Hack-Me/Pocs_for_Multi_Versions/tree/main/CVE-2018-18557 github.com
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/681748ec2f5ce88da5f9fa6831e1653e46af8a66 gitlab.com
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/38 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-15 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45694/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry