CVE-2018-18557 (GCVE-0-2018-18557)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-22 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:15
VLAI
Summary
LibTIFF 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 3.9.6, 3.9.7, 4.0.0alpha4, 4.0.0alpha5, 4.0.0alpha6, 4.0.0beta7, 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 (with JBIG enabled) decodes arbitrarily-sized JBIG into a buffer, ignoring the buffer size, which leads to a tif_jbig.c JBIGDecode out-of-bounds write.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45694/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/38 x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-15 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/681748e… x_refsource_MISC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://github.com/Hack-Me/Pocs_for_Multi_Version… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2018-10-22 00:00
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      "initial_release_date": "2018-10-14T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "264",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "9",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "libtiff: Out-of-bounds write in tif_jbig.c",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2018/cve-2018-18557.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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