Bug 1579058 (CVE-2018-10963) - CVE-2018-10963 libtiff: reachable assertion in TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c
Summary: CVE-2018-10963 libtiff: reachable assertion in TIFFWriteDirectorySec function...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-10963
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1579059 1579060 1579061 1579062 1598726
Blocks: 1577318
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-16 22:00 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-08-06 19:18:48 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2019:2053 0 None None None 2019-08-06 12:08:56 UTC

Description Laura Pardo 2018-05-16 22:00:15 UTC 
A flaw was found in LibTIFF through 4.0.9. TIFFWriteDirectorySec() function in tif_dirwrite.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via a crafted file.


References:
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2795

Patch:
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/de144fd228e4be8aa484c3caf3d814b6fa88c6d9
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-05-16 22:00:47 UTC 
Created libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1579061]


Created mingw-libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1579062]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1579059]
Comment 5 Riccardo Schirone 2018-07-06 10:20:44 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of libtiff as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as they did not include the vulnerable code.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 12:08:55 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2019:2053 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-06 19:18:48 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-10963
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