Improper Input Validation Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.3-12.3+deb8u4
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
12.56% (96th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-405867
- published 29 Jun 2017
- disclosed 29 Jun 2017
Introduced: 29 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-10688 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10688
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10688
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3903
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42299/
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2712
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99359
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-10688
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/