Out-of-Bounds Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.9-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE312-TIFF-587318
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed21 Mar 2019

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-16231  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.12 tiff to version 4.0.9-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.12 relevant fixed versions and status.

In PCRE 8.41, after compiling, a pcretest load test PoC produces a crash overflow in the function match() in pcre_exec.c because of a self-recursive call. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this report, noting that there are options that can be used to limit the amount of stack that is used