Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting libtiff-tools package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.06% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBTIFFTOOLS-1371290
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed18 Jan 2017

Introduced: 18 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-5563  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (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.

LibTIFF version 4.0.7 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in tif_lzw.c resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted bmp image to tools/bmp2tiff.