Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting tiff package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.73% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-406146
  • published 27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 21 Mar 2019

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 tiff.

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.

LibTIFF 4.0.8 has multiple memory leak vulnerabilities, which allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by tif_open.c, tif_lzw.c, and tif_aux.c. NOTE: Third parties were unable to reproduce the issue