### [CVE-2018-8905](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8905)
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### Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, a heap-based buffer overflow occurs in the function LZWDecodeCompat in tif_lzw.c via a crafted TIFF file, as demonstrated by tiff2ps.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2780
- https://github.com/halfbitteam/POCs/tree/master/libtiff-4.08_tiff2ps_heap_overflow

#### Github
- https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example