Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting libtiff5 package, versions <4.0.9-5.14.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBTIFF5-2760383
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed23 Oct 2018

Introduced: 23 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-17100  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libtiff5 to version 4.0.9-5.14.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff5 package and not the libtiff5 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There is a int32 overflow in multiply_ms in tools/ppm2tiff.c, which can cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image file.