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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-18557: libTIFF: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-18557: libTIFF: Denial of service

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/22/2018
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/16/2019
Modified
05/28/2021

Description

LibTIFF 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 3.9.6, 3.9.7, 4.0.0alpha4, 4.0.0alpha5, 4.0.0alpha6, 4.0.0beta7, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4beta, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8 and 4.0.9 (with JBIG enabled) decodes arbitrarily-sized JBIG into a buffer, ignoring the buffer size, which leads to a tif_jbig.c JBIGDecode out-of-bounds write.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-tiff

References

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