CVE-2014-8127

Published: 31 December 2014

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 6.5

Status

Notes

usn-2553-1 didn't actually fix the issue in bug #2500 as no
patch was available at the time of publication. A future update
will include a patch for the issue.

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8127
• http://www.conostix.com/pub/adv/CVE-2014-8127-LibTIFF-Out-of-bounds_Reads.txt
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2553-1
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776185
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2484 (thumbnail)
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2485 (tiff2bw)
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2486 (tiff2rgba)
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2496 (tiff2ps and tiffdither)
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2497 (tiffmedian)
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2500 (tiffset) [not fixed yet in CVS HEAD]