cve/2018/CVE-2018-8905.md

CVE-2018-8905

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, a heap-based buffer overflow occurs in the function LZWDecodeCompat in tif_lzw.c via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2ps.

POC

Reference

• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2780
• https://github.com/halfbitteam/POCs/tree/master/libtiff-4.08_tiff2ps_heap_overflow

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example