CVE-2018-17101

Summary

CVECVE-2018-17101
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-09-16 21:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-03-21 16:00:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Libtiff Libtiff 4.0.9 All All All
Application Libtiff Libtiff 4.0.9 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Bug 2807 – Out-of-bounds Write in the tiff2bw and pal2rgb tools MISC bugzilla.maptools.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
USN-3906-2: LibTIFF vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
fix three potential vulnerabilities. (!33) · Merge Requests · libtiff / libtiff · GitLab MISC gitlab.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1557-1] tiff security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
USN-3864-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4349-1 tiff DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
LibTIFF CVE-2018-17101 Function Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 377468 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for libtiff (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0073)
  • 500702 Alpine Linux Security Update for tiff
  • 504471 Alpine Linux Security Update for tiff
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