vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-8905: Security patch for libtiff (ALAS-2019-1306)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Mar 22, 2018 | Oct 11, 2019 | Oct 11, 2019 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 22, 2018
Added
Oct 11, 2019
Modified
Oct 11, 2019
Description
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.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-libtiff
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