CVE-2019-6128

Publication date 11 January 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

The TIFFFdOpen function in tif_unix.c in LibTIFF 4.0.10 has a memory leak, as demonstrated by pal2rgb.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 4.0.9-6ubuntu0.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 4.0.9-5ubuntu0.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.6
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.11

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: ae0bed1

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3906-2
LibTIFF vulnerabilities
18 March 2019

USN-3906-1
LibTIFF vulnerabilities
12 March 2019

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6128

Access our resources on patching vulnerabilities