Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.3-12.3+deb8u4


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.26% (66th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-405581
  • published 2 Jun 2017
  • disclosed 2 Jun 2017

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 tiff to version 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u4 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.

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array in tif_dirread.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.