CVE-2018-10779

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

TIFFWriteScanline in tif_write.c in LibTIFF 3.8.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read, as demonstrated by bmp2tiff.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10779

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10779.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201811-18

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.0.10-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.0.6-3
debian debianbullseyefixed4.0.6-3
debian debianforkyfixed4.0.6-3
debian debiansidfixed4.0.6-3
debian debiantrixiefixed4.0.6-3

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.