SB2018011401 - Out-of-bounds read in LibTIFF LibTIFF
Published: January 14, 2018 Updated: July 17, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018011401
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5360)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
LibTIFF before 4.0.6 mishandles the reading of TIFF files, as demonstrated by a heap-based buffer over-read in the ReadTIFFImage function in coders/tiff.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.27.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.