High severity · published Sep 16, 2018
CVE-2018-17101
An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9
8.8
CVSS
3.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An 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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.1% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
LI
Libtiff · Libtiff
4.0.9 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
14.04; 16.04; 18.04; 18.10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17101
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17101
Issue Tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2807
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105370
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
Patch
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/33/diffs?commit_id=f1b94e8a3ba49febdd3361c0214a1d1149251577
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00019.html
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/
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