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Ubuntu: USN-3864-1 (CVE-2018-8905): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3864-1 (CVE-2018-8905): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/22/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/31/2019
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, a heap-based buffer overflow occurs in the function LZWDecodeCompat in tif_lzw.c via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2ps.

Solution(s)

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

References

  • USN-3864-1
  • USN-3906-2
  • DSA-4349
  • CVE-2018-8905

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