Reachable Assertion Affecting libtiff-tools package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.51% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBTIFFTOOLS-1362719
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Aug 2017

Introduced: 21 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-13727  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libtiff-tools.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-tools package and not the libtiff-tools package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function TIFFWriteDirectoryTagSubifd() in LibTIFF 4.0.8, related to tif_dirwrite.c and a SubIFD tag. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.