FKIE_CVE-2018-19210

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-11-12 19:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:48
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c that will lead to a denial of service attack, as demonstrated by tiffset.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2820Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00041.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155095/Slackware-Security-Advisory-libtiff-Updates.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105932Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00026.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C6IL2QFKE6MGVUTOPU2UUWITTE36KRDF/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TX5UEYHGMTNEHJB4FHE7HCJ75UQDNKGB/
cve@mitre.orghttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/5
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-25
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4670
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2820Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00041.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155095/Slackware-Security-Advisory-libtiff-Updates.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105932Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00026.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/C6IL2QFKE6MGVUTOPU2UUWITTE36KRDF/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TX5UEYHGMTNEHJB4FHE7HCJ75UQDNKGB/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-25
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4670
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libtiff libtiff 4.0.9
debian debian_linux 8.0
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.10
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