Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-5784  

In LibTIFF before 4.0.10, there is an uncontrolled resource consumption in the TIFFSetDirectory function of tif_dir.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted tif file. This occurs because the declared number of directory entries is not validated against the actual number of directory entries.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

In LibTIFF before 4.0.10, there is an uncontrolled resource consumption in the TIFFSetDirectory function of tif_dir.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted tif file. This occurs because the declared number of directory entries is not validated against the actual number of directory entries.

AVG-813 libtiff 4.0.9-1 4.0.9-2 High Fixed

AVG-791 lib32-libtiff 4.0.9-1 4.0.10-1 High Fixed FS#60599

20 Nov 2018 ASA-201811-18 AVG-791 lib32-libtiff High multiple issues

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2772
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/473851d211cf8805a161820337ca74cc9615d6ef