CVE-2018-18661

Public on 2018-10-26

Modified on 2019-10-23

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.

Severity

Low

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CVSS v3 Base Score

3.3

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	libtiff	2019-10-08 21:06	ALAS-2019-1306
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	libtiff	2019-10-21 18:01	ALAS2-2019-1327

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	3.3	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD	CVSSv2	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD	CVSSv3	6.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-18661 Mitre: CVE-2018-18661 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity