Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.3-12.3+deb8u5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.67% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-405671
  • published18 Aug 2017
  • disclosed18 Aug 2017

Introduced: 18 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12944  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

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.

The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read.c in LibTIFF 4.0.8 mishandles memory allocation for short files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (allocation failure and application crash) in the TIFFFetchStripThing function in tif_dirread.c during a tiff2pdf invocation.