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Debian: CVE-2018-17101: tiff -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-17101: tiff -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/16/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/02/2018
Modified
02/18/2020

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-tiff

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