PT-2017-7887 · Libtiff+2 · Libtiff+2

Deng Yi · Published 2017-05-10 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-10371

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions LibTIFF version 4.0.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, leading to an assertion failure and application exit, via a crafted TIFF file. This is due to a problem in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedRational function in tif dirwrite.c.

Recommendations For LibTIFF version 4.0.6, consider avoiding the use of the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedRational function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of crafted TIFF files to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-10371

DLA-969-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11461-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2569-1

SUSE-SU-2017_2569-1

USN-3602-1

Affected Products

Libtiff

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 154

• 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/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10371 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9936 · Security Note
• 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
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7596 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10371 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10268 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10371 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-18013 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-11335 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9815 · Security Note