PT-2017-8934 · Libtiff+3 · Libtiff+3

Mathias Svensson · Published 2016-10-20 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-6223

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.1

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libtiff versions prior to 4.0.7

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information via a negative index in a file-content buffer. This is due to a problem in the TIFFReadRawStrip1 and TIFFReadRawTile1 functions in tif read.c.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.0.7, update to version 4.0.7 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to files that could be used to exploit this issue until the update is applied.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2019-1628

CVE-2016-6223

DLA-610-1

DLA-693-1

DSA-3762-1

MGASA-2016-0349

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4053-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_4256-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13381-1

SUSE-SU-2018:4008-1

SUSE-SU-2018:4191-1

USN-3212-1

USN-3212-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Libtiff

References · 249

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• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3634 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6223 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00539 · Security Note
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• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00330 · Security Note
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