| Name | CVE-2018-18661 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2009-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 912012 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| tiff (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u17 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4.0.8-2+deb9u8 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.0.8-2+deb9u12 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u9 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 4.2.0-1+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 4.5.0-6+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.5.1+git230720-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| tiff | source | jessie | 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u10 | | DLA-2009-1 | |
| tiff | source | (unstable) | 4.0.10-1 | unimportant | | 912012 |
| tiff3 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2819
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/99b10edde9a0fc28cc0e7b7757aa18ac4c8c225f
No security impact, crash in CLI tool
This vulnerability only affects the tiff-tools binary package which is built
exclusively from the tiff source package