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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-16335): tiff vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-16335): tiff vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/02/2018
Created
11/21/2024
Added
11/19/2024
Modified
11/19/2024

Description

newoffsets handling in ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip in tif_dirread.c in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2pdf. This is a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-15209.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-tiff

References

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