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Red Hat: CVE-2018-17101: Moderate: libtiff security update (RHSA-2019:2053)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-17101: Moderate: libtiff security update (RHSA-2019:2053)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/16/2018
Created
08/08/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
03/03/2021

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-libtiff
  • redhat-upgrade-libtiff-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libtiff-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-libtiff-static
  • redhat-upgrade-libtiff-tools

References

  • 105370
  • DSA-4349
  • CVE-2018-17101
  • RHSA-2019:2053

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