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CVE-2018-17101
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…
High8.8EPSS 3.1%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (8)
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/33/diffs?commit_id=f1b94e8a3ba49febdd3361c0214a1d1149251577 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- USN-3864-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 105370 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-4349 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2807 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20181028 [SECURITY] [DLA 1557-1] tiff security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-3906-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2053 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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