Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting libtiff-tools package, versions <0:4.0.3-27.el7_3


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.68% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBTIFFTOOLS-4640328
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed24 Sept 2016

Introduced: 24 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-9534  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 libtiff-tools to version 0:4.0.3-27.el7_3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:0225.

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.

tif_write.c in libtiff 4.0.6 has an issue in the error code path of TIFFFlushData1() that didn't reset the tif_rawcc and tif_rawcp members. Reported as MSVR 35095, aka "TIFFFlushData1 heap-buffer-overflow."