Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.3-12.3+deb8u2
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.55% (78th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-405279
- published 22 Nov 2016
- disclosed 22 Nov 2016
Introduced: 22 Nov 2016
CVE-2016-9538 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.
tools/tiffcrop.c in libtiff 4.0.6 reads an undefined buffer in readContigStripsIntoBuffer() because of a uint16 integer overflow. Reported as MSVR 35100.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9538
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
- https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/43c0b81a818640429317c80fea1e66771e85024b#diff-c8b4b355f9b5c06d585b23138e1c185f
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94484
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94753
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-9538