Out-of-bounds Read Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.3-12.3+deb8u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.29% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-405233
  • published 28 Dec 2017
  • disclosed 28 Dec 2017

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 tiff to version 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u2 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function PackBitsEncode in tif_packbits.c.