CVE-2018-10779: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Libtiff Libtiff: version 3.8.2 only

Published 2018-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.