CVE-2018-8905

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    CVE-2018-8905

    Published: 22 Mar 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: In LibTIFF 4.0.9, a heap-based buffer overflow occurs in the function LZWDecodeCompat in tif_lzw.c via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2ps.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00008.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00009.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00002.html, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349, http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2780, https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/58a898cb4459055bb488ca815c23b880c242a27d, https://github.com/halfbitteam/POCs/tree/master/libtiff-4.08_tiff2ps_heap_overflow

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 636f2684a0faaf9510ae4219f286a53f98f37483
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.0.9

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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