CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-8905
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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
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.
Affected configurations
• libtiff libtiff 4.0.9
• debian debian linux 7.0
• 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
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2780 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/halfbitteam/POCs/tree/master/libtiff-4.08_tiff2ps_heap_overflow Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/58a898cb4459055bb488ca815c23b880c242a27d Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00009.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00002.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349 Third Party Advisory
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2780 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/halfbitteam/POCs/tree/master/libtiff-4.08_tiff2ps_heap_overflow Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/58a898cb4459055bb488ca815c23b880c242a27d Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00009.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00002.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349 Third Party Advisory