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Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libtiff-tools package, versions <0:4.0.3-25.el7_2

high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.87% (83rd percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBTIFFTOOLS-1449507
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 7 Dec 2014
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Introduced: 7 Dec 2014

CVE-2014-8127 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-125 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 libtiff-tools to version 0:4.0.3-25.el7_2 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:1546.

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 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

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