Out-of-Bounds Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.7-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.3% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-TIFF-406096
  • published22 Nov 2016
  • disclosed22 Nov 2016

Introduced: 22 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-9535  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 tiff to version 4.0.7-1 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.

tif_predict.h and tif_predict.c in libtiff 4.0.6 have assertions that can lead to assertion failures in debug mode, or buffer overflows in release mode, when dealing with unusual tile size like YCbCr with subsampling. Reported as MSVR 35105, aka "Predictor heap-buffer-overflow."