Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.3-12.3+deb8u7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.76% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-406194
  • published 25 Sep 2018
  • disclosed 16 Sep 2018

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 tiff to version 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u7 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.

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There are two out-of-bounds writes in cpTags in tools/tiff2bw.c and tools/pal2rgb.c, which can cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file.