CVE-2018-7456

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

Description

A NULL Pointer Dereference occurs in the function TIFFPrintDirectory in tif_print.c in LibTIFF 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 3.9.6, 3.9.7, 4.0.0alpha4, 4.0.0alpha5, 4.0.0alpha6, 4.0.0beta7, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.4beta, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8 and 4.0.9 when using the tiffinfo tool to print crafted TIFF information, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-18013. (This affects an earlier part of the TIFFPrintDirectory function that was not addressed by the CVE-2017-18013 patch.)

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-2018-7456

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7456.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

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

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.0.9-2
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.0.9-5
debian debianbullseyefixed4.0.9-5
debian debianforkyfixed4.0.9-5
debian debiansidfixed4.0.9-5
debian debiantrixiefixed4.0.9-5

References

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