CVE-2018-8905

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8905
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-8905.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-8905
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-03-22T04:29:00.483Z
Modified
2025-11-17T04:10:58.557022Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, a heap-based buffer overflow occurs in the function LZWDecodeCompat in tif_lzw.c via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2ps.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/vadz/libtiff

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Git / gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
58a898cb4459055bb488ca815c23b880c242a27d

Affected versions

v3.*

v3.5.3
v3.5.4
v3.5.5
v3.5.7
v3.6.0
v3.6.0beta2
v3.6.1
v3.7.0
v3.7.0alpha
v3.7.0beta
v3.7.0beta2
v3.7.1
v3.7.2
v3.7.3
v3.7.4
v3.8.0
v3.8.1
v3.8.2

v4.*

v4.0.0
v4.0.0alpha
v4.0.0alpha4
v4.0.0alpha5
v4.0.0alpha6
v4.0.0beta7
v4.0.1
v4.0.2
v4.0.3
v4.0.4
v4.0.4beta
v4.0.5
v4.0.6
v4.0.7
v4.0.8
v4.0.9

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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