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Improper Input Validation Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.3-12.3+deb8u4

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 12.56% (96th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-405867
  • published 29 Jun 2017
  • disclosed 29 Jun 2017
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Introduced: 29 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-10688 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-20 Open this link in a new tab

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 4.0.8, there is a assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.