Security advisory

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  "id": "798ad8436953db7f884a8f73bde8656d943162dcc5f6dd9758b5dd4d7221bf4f",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-10779",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-10779",
    "summary": "TIFFWriteScanline in tif_write.c in LibTIFF 3.8.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read, as demonstrated by bmp2tiff.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-10779",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-10779",
      "aliases": [
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      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/vadz/libtiff",
              "type": "GIT",
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                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:3.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.8.2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.8.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
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              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.8.2",
            "Release-v3-8-2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        },
        {
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              "repo": "https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff",
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                },
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              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:3.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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                      {
                        "introduced": "3.8.2"
                      },
                      {
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                      }
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                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.8.2",
            "v3.8.2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-10779.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:03.507156918Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-1/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
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                    "introduced": "14.04"
                  },
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                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
                  },
                  {
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                  },
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                  },
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                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "18.10"
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                ],
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              }
            ]
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        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-10779",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440271,
  "published_at": "2018-05-07T07:29:00.537+00:00"
}