Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.8-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-TIFF-406304
  • published22 Jun 2017
  • disclosed22 Jun 2017

Introduced: 22 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9815  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 tiff to version 4.0.8-1 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.

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, the TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array function in libtiff/tif_dirread.c mishandles a malloc operation, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak within the function _TIFFmalloc in tif_unix.c) via a crafted file.