CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-18661

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 26, 2018 | Modified: Aug 06, 2019
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function LZWDecode in the file tif_lzw.c.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libtiff Libtiff 4.0.9 (including) 4.0.9 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat libtiff-0:4.0.3-32.el7 *
Tiff Ubuntu bionic *
Tiff Ubuntu cosmic *
Tiff Ubuntu precise/esm *
Tiff Ubuntu trusty *
Tiff Ubuntu xenial *

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