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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2018-10801 json

TIFFClientOpen in tif_unix.c in LibTIFF 3.8.2 has memory leaks, as demonstrated by bmp2tiff.

published 2018-05-08 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-2870

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

TIFFClientOpen in tif_unix.c in LibTIFF 3.8.2 has memory leaks, as demonstrated by bmp2tiff.

Patch / fix

  • tiff Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.0.6-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10801

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-10801 updated cvss 5.5

libtiff: memory leak in bmp2tiff tool

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libtiff, libtiff-tools Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 libtiff, libtiff-tools
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.maptools.org http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2790 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

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