CVE-2018-7456

Summary

CVECVE-2018-7456
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-02-24 06:29:00 UTC
Updated2021-01-29 20:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA NULL Pointer Dereference occurs in the function TIFFPrintDirectory in tif_print.c in 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 when using the tiffinfo tool to print crafted TIFF information, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-18013. (This affects an earlier part of the TIFFPrintDirectory function that was not addressed by the CVE-2017-18013 patch.)

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
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 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 7.0 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
[SECURITY] [DLA 1346-1] tiff security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1411-1] tiff security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1347-1] tiff3 security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
pocs/libtiff at master · xiaoqx/pocs · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Fix NULL pointer dereference in TIFFPrintDirectory (be4c85b1) · Commits · libtiff / libtiff · GitLab CONFIRM gitlab.com Patch, 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
Bug 2778 – A NULL Pointer Dereference in libtiff (CVE-2018-7456) MISC bugzilla.maptools.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 377456 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for compat-libtiff3 (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0057)
  • 377468 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for libtiff (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0073)
  • 500699 Alpine Linux Security Update for tiff
  • 504468 Alpine Linux Security Update for tiff
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