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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-17000): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-17000): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/13/2018
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/01/2019
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

A NULL pointer dereference in the function _TIFFmemcmp at tif_unix.c (called from TIFFWriteDirectoryTagTransferfunction) in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows an attacker to cause a denial-of-service through a crafted tiff file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable tiffcp.

Solution(s)

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

References

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