CVE-2018-15209 is a heap-based buffer overflow in LibTIFF 4.0.9 in the ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip function. Processing a crafted TIFF image can cause the function to write beyond a heap allocation. The flaw can be reached by TIFF-consuming applications, with tiff2pdf identified as an example affected consumer.
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Linux kernel vulnerability addressed through backported patches in the updated Red Hat container image.
A heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability in libtiff's ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip function in tif_dirread.c.
A heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability in libtiff's ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip function.
A heap-based buffer overflow in libtiff's ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip function in tif_dirread.c, addressed in updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 container images.
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