vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2018-8905)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 22, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

In LibTIFF before 4.0.10, a heap-based buffer overflow (out-of-bounds write) occurs in the function LZWDecodeCompat in tif_lzw.c via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by the tiff2ps tool.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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