CVE-2018-17101

Publication date 16 September 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 4.0.9-6ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10

Patch details

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Package Patch details
tiff

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3864-1
    • LibTIFF vulnerabilities
    • 22 January 2019
    • USN-3906-2
    • LibTIFF vulnerabilities
    • 18 March 2019

Other references