Reachable Assertion Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.3-12.3+deb8u5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.58% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-405447
  • published 29 Aug 2017
  • disclosed 29 Aug 2017

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 tiff to version 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u5 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.

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function TIFFWriteDirectorySec() in LibTIFF 4.0.8, related to tif_dirwrite.c and a SubIFD tag. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.