CVE-2018-19210

6.5 mediumEPSS 3.6%

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

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a NULL pointer dereference in the TIFFWriteDirectorySec function in tif_dirwrite.c that will lead to a denial of service attack, as demonstrated by tiffset.

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 2026-11-01)
CWE: CWE-476
Published: 2018-11-12
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=2820
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00041.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155095/Slackware-Security-Advisory-libtiff-Updates.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105932
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00026.html

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