Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2018-8905 First vendor Publication 2018-03-22
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-03-01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 8.8
Base Score 8.8 Environmental Score 8.8
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 8.8
Exploitabality Sub Score 2.8
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, a heap-based buffer overflow occurs in the function LZWDecodeCompat in tif_lzw.c via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2ps.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8905

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 4
Os 3
Os 1
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-d41d114d3e.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-12-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4349.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-13 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2018-316-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-24 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0048.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-03 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1411.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-44c6f91560.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1377.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-05-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1378.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/58a898cb4459055bb488ca815c23b880c24...
DEBIAN https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
MISC http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2780
https://github.com/halfbitteam/POCs/tree/master/libtiff-4.08_tiff2ps_heap_ove...
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00008.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00009.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00002.html
REDHAT https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
UBUNTU https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/

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2023-03-01 21:27:53
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2021-04-22 02:36:11
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2020-09-03 01:24:23
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2020-05-23 01:19:34
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2019-08-06 21:20:00
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2019-04-22 21:19:17
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2019-04-19 21:19:27
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2019-03-06 00:19:04
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2019-01-23 17:19:25
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2018-12-01 17:19:02
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2018-07-04 09:19:48
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2018-05-15 09:19:30
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2018-04-16 00:19:17
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2018-03-22 09:19:28
  • First insertion