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CVE-2013-4243

Published: 10 September 2013

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

Notes

AuthorNote
jdstrand
per Debian, tiff3 source package doesn't build the TIFF tools
mdeslaur
as of 2014-03-10, no upstream fix yet

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
tiff
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid
Released (3.9.2-2ubuntu0.14)
precise
Released (3.9.5-2ubuntu1.6)
quantal
Released (4.0.2-1ubuntu2.3)
raring Ignored
(end of life)
saucy
Released (4.0.2-4ubuntu3.1)
trusty
Released (4.0.3-7ubuntu0.1)
upstream Needs triage

Patches:
vendor: http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2451#c10
tiff3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid Does not exist

precise Does not exist

quantal Not vulnerable

raring Not vulnerable

saucy Not vulnerable

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needed