CVE-2018-8905
- 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
- 2018-03-22T04:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-15T10:03:12.684461Z
- 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
-
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2780
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
- https://github.com/halfbitteam/POCs/tree/master/libtiff-4.08_tiff2ps_heap_overflow
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/58a898cb4459055bb488ca815c23b880c242a27d
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00008.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00009.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00002.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
Affected packages
Git / github.com/vadz/libtiff
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/vadz/libtiff
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
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
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"file": "libtiff/tif_lzw.c",
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},
"source": "https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff@58a898cb4459055bb488ca815c23b880c242a27d",
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