CVE-2018-18661

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function LZWDecode in the file tif_lzw.c.

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-2018-18661

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18661.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201811-17

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 debianbookwormfixed4.0.10-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.0.10-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.0.10-1
debian debiansidfixed4.0.10-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.0.10-1

References

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