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LIN6-14990 : Security Advisory - tiff - CVE-2018-17000

Created: Sep 16, 2018    Updated: Mar 8, 2020
Resolved Date: Mar 12, 2019
Found In Version: 6.0.0.37
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Userspace

Description

A NULL pointer dereference in the function _TIFFmemcmp at tif_unix.c (called from TIFFWriteDirectoryTagTransferfunction) in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows an attacker to cause a denial-of-service through a crafted tiff file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable tiffcp.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17000
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