CVE-2018-17101

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    CVE-2018-17101

    Published: 16 Sept 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105370, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00019.html, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349, http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2807, https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/33/diffs?commit_id=f1b94e8a3ba49febdd3361c0214a1d1149251577

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 636f2684a0faaf9510ae4219f286a53f98f37483
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.0.9

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High