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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-17101

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There are two out-of-bounds writes in cpTags in tools/tiff2bw.c and tools/pal2rgb.c, which can cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file.

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CVE-2018-17101
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1 Nov 2026, 07:55 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-17101

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Sept 2018, 21:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There are two out-of-bounds writes in cpTags in tools/tiff2bw.c and tools/pal2rgb.c, which can cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file.

osv:CVE-2018-17101
Complete source record
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