SB2018061715 - Denial of service in LibTIFF
Published: June 17, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018061715
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10963)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause denial of service conditions.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input processed by the TIFFWriteDirectorySec() function, as defined in the tif_dirwrite.c source code file. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted file, trigger assertion failure and cause the application to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.