Out-of-Bounds Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.8-2+deb9u6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-TIFF-1078794
  • published24 Feb 2021
  • disclosed9 Mar 2021

Introduced: 24 Feb 2021

CVE-2020-35524  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 tiff to version 4.0.8-2+deb9u6 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in libtiff in the handling of TIFF images in libtiff's TIFF2PDF tool. A specially crafted TIFF file can lead to arbitrary code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

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