Description
An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function LZWDecode in the file tif_lzw.c.
Published: 2018-10-26
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2009-1 tiff security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-10377 An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function LZWDecode in the file tif_lzw.c.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3864-1 LibTIFF vulnerabilities
History

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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Libtiff Libtiff
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:15:59.945Z

Reserved: 2018-10-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-18661

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-10-26T14:29:02.537

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:56:20.070

Link: CVE-2018-18661

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-10-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-18661 - Bugzilla

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