Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.9-r8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE312-TIFF-587331
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed16 Sept 2018

Introduced: 16 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17100  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.12 tiff to version 4.0.9-r8 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.

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There is a int32 overflow in multiply_ms in tools/ppm2tiff.c, which can cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file.