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CVE-2018-15209

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip in tif_dirread.c in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2pdf.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• libtiff: 4.0.9

References

• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2808
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105092
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2808
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105092
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349

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