CVE-2018-18661

Summary

CVECVE-2018-18661
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-10-26 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-08-06 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function LZWDecode in the file tif_lzw.c.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

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
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
[SECURITY] [DLA 2009-1] tiff security update MLIST lists.debian.org
USN-3864-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
LibTIFF CVE-2018-18661 Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Bug 2819 – There is a NULL pointer dereference at function LZWDecode in libtiff 4.0.9 (CVE-2018-18661) MISC bugzilla.maptools.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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)
  • 500690 Alpine Linux Security Update for tiff
  • 504459 Alpine Linux Security Update for tiff
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