Improper Input Validation Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.3-12.3+deb8u4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    12.56% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-405867
  • published 29 Jun 2017
  • disclosed 29 Jun 2017

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 tiff to version 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u4 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 4.0.8, there is a assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.