CVE-2018-17101

moderate-risk
Published 2018-09-16

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.54% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.8/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (7)

Affected Vendors

Debian Libtiff Canonical

References (16)

Issue Tracking http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2807
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105370
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
Patch https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/33/diffs?commit_id=f1b94e8a3ba...
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00019.html
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
Issue Tracking http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2807
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105370
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
Patch https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/33/diffs?commit_id=f1b94e8a3ba...
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00019.html
Third Party Advisory https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
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moderate-risk
Severity 30/34 · Critical
Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal
Exposure 14/34 · Moderate