Out-of-bounds Read Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.3-12.3+deb8u2
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0.29% (70th
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-405233
- published 28 Dec 2017
- disclosed 28 Dec 2017
Introduced: 28 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-17942 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.