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CVE-2018-19210

Publication date 12 November 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c that will lead to a denial of service attack, as demonstrated by tiffset.

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
Fixed 4.0.9-6ubuntu0.2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.6
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11

Patch details

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Package Patch details
tiff

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3906-1
    • LibTIFF vulnerabilities
    • 12 March 2019

Other references