CVE-2018-15209: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip in tif_dirread.c in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2pdf.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
  • Libtiff Libtiff: version 4.0.9 only

Published 2018-08-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.