CVE-2018-10963

6.5 mediumEPSS 3.6%

Medium (6.5). EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The TIFFWriteDirectorySec() function in tif_dirwrite.c in LibTIFF through 4.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and application crash) via a crafted file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-13726.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-617
Published: 2018-05-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

canonical:ubuntu_linux
debian:debian_linux
libtiff:libtiff

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2795
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00002.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349

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