CVE-2018-8905

Publication date 22 March 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.1
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.5
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.10

Patch details

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Package Patch details
tiff

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3864-1
    • LibTIFF vulnerabilities
    • 22 January 2019

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