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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-12900): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-12900): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/26/2018
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/01/2019
Modified
03/09/2021

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the cpSeparateBufToContigBuf function in tiffcp.c in LibTIFF 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 3.9.6, 3.9.7, 4.0.0beta7, 4.0.0alpha4, 4.0.0alpha5, 4.0.0alpha6, 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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF file.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff-tools
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff4
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff5

References

  • USN-3864-1
  • USN-3906-1
  • USN-3906-2
  • CVE-2018-12900

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