Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.7-6


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.87% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-TIFF-405252
  • published9 Apr 2017
  • disclosed9 Apr 2017

Introduced: 9 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7594  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 tiff to version 4.0.7-6 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

The OJPEGReadHeaderInfoSecTablesDcTable function in tif_ojpeg.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak) via a crafted image.