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CVE-2018-17101 Detail

Description

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There are two out-of-bounds writes in cpTags in tools/tiff2bw.c and tools/pal2rgb.c, which can cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2807 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105370 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/33/diffs?commit_id=f1b94e8a3ba49febdd3361c0214a1d1149251577 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00019.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/ Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349 Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-17101
NVD Published Date:
09/16/2018
NVD Last Modified:
03/21/2019
Source:
MITRE