Out-of-Bounds Affecting libtiff package, versions [,4.0.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBTIFF-2327452
  • published29 Dec 2021
  • disclosed13 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Apr 2016

CVE-2015-8683  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libtiff to version 4.0.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a packed TIFF image.

CVSS Base Scores

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