Out-of-bounds Read Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.7-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-TIFF-405981
  • published24 Mar 2017
  • disclosed24 Mar 2017

Introduced: 24 Mar 2017

CVE-2016-10270  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 tiff to version 4.0.7-2 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.

LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 8" and libtiff/tif_read.c:523:22.