SB2018042417 - Denial of service in LibTIFF
Published: April 24, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018042417
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10126)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the jpeg_fdct_16x16 function in the jfdctint.c source code file due to NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker can use the tiff2pdf tool to print a specially crafted .tif file and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.