CVE-2018-5360

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

LibTIFF before 4.0.6 mishandles the reading of TIFF files, as demonstrated by a heap-based buffer over-read in the ReadTIFFImage function in coders/tiff.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.27.

Affected products

GraphicsMagick: 1.3.27
libtiff: before 4.0.6 — fixed in 4.0.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: libtiff 4.0.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2500
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/739dcd28a061738b317c1e9f91029d9cbc157159
https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/540/
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2500
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/739dcd28a061738b317c1e9f91029d9cbc157159
https://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/bugs/540/

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