UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18557

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18557
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18557.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18557
Upstream
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-10-22T00:00:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:45:04Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

LibTIFF 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 3.9.6, 3.9.7, 4.0.0alpha4, 4.0.0alpha5, 4.0.0alpha6, 4.0.0beta7, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4beta, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8 and 4.0.9 (with JBIG enabled) decodes arbitrarily-sized JBIG into a buffer, ignoring the buffer size, which leads to a tif_jbig.c JBIGDecode out-of-bounds write.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / tiff

Package

Name
tiff
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tiff@4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.2-4ubuntu3
4.0.3-5ubuntu1
4.0.3-6
4.0.3-6ubuntu1
4.0.3-7
4.0.3-7ubuntu0.1
4.0.3-7ubuntu0.2
4.0.3-7ubuntu0.3
4.0.3-7ubuntu0.4
4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6
4.0.3-7ubuntu0.7
4.0.3-7ubuntu0.8
4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10",
            "binary_name": "libtiff-opengl"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10",
            "binary_name": "libtiff-tools"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10",
            "binary_name": "libtiff4-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10",
            "binary_name": "libtiff5"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10",
            "binary_name": "libtiff5-alt-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10",
            "binary_name": "libtiff5-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10",
            "binary_name": "libtiffxx5"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / tiff

Package

Name
tiff
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tiff@4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.3-12.3ubuntu2
4.0.5-1
4.0.6-1
4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1
4.0.6-1ubuntu0.2
4.0.6-1ubuntu0.3
4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5",
            "binary_name": "libtiff-opengl"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5",
            "binary_name": "libtiff-tools"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5",
            "binary_name": "libtiff5"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5",
            "binary_name": "libtiff5-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5",
            "binary_name": "libtiffxx5"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / tiff

Package

Name
tiff
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tiff@4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

4.*

4.0.8-5
4.0.8-6
4.0.9-1
4.0.9-2
4.0.9-3
4.0.9-4
4.0.9-4ubuntu1
4.0.9-5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libtiff-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libtiff-opengl"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libtiff-tools"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libtiff5"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libtiff5-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libtiffxx5"
        }
    ]
}