Resource Exhaustion Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.9-4
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- published19 Jan 2018
- disclosed19 Jan 2018
Introduced: 19 Jan 2018
CVE-2018-5784 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable tiff to version 4.0.9-4 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.
In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is an uncontrolled resource consumption in the TIFFSetDirectory function of tif_dir.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted tif file. This occurs because the declared number of directory entries is not validated against the actual number of directory entries.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5784
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/473851d211cf8805a161820337ca74cc9615d6ef
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5784
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4349
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00022.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00002.html
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2772
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-5784
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/