vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2018-19210: libtiff: NULL pointer dereference in TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 12, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c that will lead to a denial of service attack, as demonstrated by tiffset.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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