CVE-2018-10963 — Reachable Assertion in Libtiff

CWE-617 — Reachable Assertion10 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 66.97%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Debian TiffLibtiffCanonical Ubuntu Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedMay 10
Latest updateMay 13

Description

The TIFFWriteDirectorySec() function in tif_dirwrite.c in LibTIFF through 4.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via a crafted file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-13726.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDlibtiff/libtiff4.0.9
▶debiandebian/tiff< tiff 4.0.9-6 (bookworm)

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-v297-429x-xxgh: The TIFFWriteDirectorySec() function in tif_dirwrite↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-10963: The TIFFWriteDirectorySec() function in tif_dirwrite↗2018-05-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
LibTIFF vulnerabilities↗2019-01-22
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Red Hat
libtiff: reachable assertion in TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c↗2018-05-09
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Debian
CVE-2018-10963: tiff - The TIFFWriteDirectorySec() function in tif_dirwrite.c in LibTIFF through 4.0.9 ...↗2018
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-10963 mingw-libtiff: libtiff: reachable assertion in TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c [epel-7]↗2018-05-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-10963 libtiff: reachable assertion in TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c↗2018-05-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-10963 libtiff: reachable assertion in TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c [fedora-all]↗2018-05-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-10963 mingw-libtiff: libtiff: reachable assertion in TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c [fedora-all]↗2018-05-16
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