PT-2017-13047 · Libtiff+2 · Libtiff+2

Published 2017-08-29 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-13726

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions LibTIFF version 4.0.8

Description The issue is related to a reachable assertion abort in the function TIFFWriteDirectorySec() in tif dirwrite.c, specifically involving a SubIFD tag. This can be exploited with a crafted input, potentially leading to a remote denial of service attack.

Recommendations For LibTIFF version 4.0.8, consider applying a patch or fix that addresses the reachable assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectorySec() function to prevent remote denial of service attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Assertion Failure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-617

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-13726

DLA-1093-1

DLA-1411-1

DSA-4100-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_1834-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1826-1

USN-3602-1

Affected Products

Libtiff

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 120

• 🔥 https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/tree/master/libtiff · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/halfbitteam/POCs/tree/master/libtiff-4.08_tiff2ps_heap_overflow · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7456 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-00728 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7597 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7595 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7602 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10269 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13726 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11335 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9936 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7599 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13726 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7601 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10688 · Security Note