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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.69% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-405612
  • published 20 Jan 2017
  • disclosed 20 Jan 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.

Buffer overflow in the PixarLogDecode function in libtiff.so in the PixarLogDecode function in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier, as used in GNOME nautilus, allows attackers to cause a denial of service attack (crash) via a crafted TIFF file.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

4.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low