Source: tiff Version: 4.0.9-6 Severity: important Tags: security upstream Forwarded: http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2811
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for tiff. CVE-2018-17000[0]: | 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. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17000 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17000 [1] http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2811 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
