CVE-2018-8905
HIGH8.8EPSS 0.64%tiff3 - security update
Published: 3/22/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (4)
- Alpine/tifffrom 0, < 4.0.9-r5
- Debian/tifffrom 0, < 4.0.9-6
- Debian/tifffrom 0, < 4.0.2-6+deb7u20
- Debian/tiff3from 0, < 3.9.6-11+deb7u11
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |