CVE-2018-5360

Publication date 14 January 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

LibTIFF before 4.0.6 mishandles the reading of TIFF files, as demonstrated by a heap-based buffer over-read in the ReadTIFFImage function in coders/tiff.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.27.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6

Notes

mdeslaur

dupe of CVE-2014-8127 and CVE-2016-3658 this will not be fixed in precise/esm

Patch details

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Package Patch details
tiff

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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