<p>Upgrade <code>Debian:8</code> <code>tiff</code> to version 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u5 or higher.</p>

Reachable Assertion Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.3-12.3+deb8u5

Snyk CVSS

Attack Complexity Low

User Interaction Required

Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS 0.58% (78^th percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-405575
published 29 Aug 2017
disclosed 29 Aug 2017

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Introduced: 29 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-13727 Open this link in a new tab CWE-617 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 tiff to version 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function TIFFWriteDirectoryTagSubifd() in LibTIFF 4.0.8, related to tif_dirwrite.c and a SubIFD tag. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.