Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.9-r8
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- published25 Sept 2018
- disclosed16 Sept 2018
Introduced: 16 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-17100 (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.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-17100
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4670
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00019.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-17100
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2810
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/33/diffs?commit_id=6da1fb3f64d43be37e640efbec60400d1f1ac39e
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2053
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-17100
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3864-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3906-2/