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Red Hat: CVE-2018-7456: Low: compat-libtiff3 security update (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-7456: Low: compat-libtiff3 security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/24/2018
Created
08/08/2019
Added
08/07/2019
Modified
03/03/2021

Description

A NULL Pointer Dereference occurs in the function TIFFPrintDirectory in tif_print.c in 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 when using the tiffinfo tool to print crafted TIFF information, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-18013. (This affects an earlier part of the TIFFPrintDirectory function that was not addressed by the CVE-2017-18013 patch.)

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-compat-libtiff3
  • redhat-upgrade-compat-libtiff3-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libtiff
  • redhat-upgrade-libtiff-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libtiff-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-libtiff-static
  • redhat-upgrade-libtiff-tools

References

  • DSA-4349
  • CVE-2018-7456
  • RHSA-2019:2051
  • RHSA-2019:2053

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