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
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
tiff Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Released
(4.0.3-7ubuntu0.2)
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Patches: Upstream: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/3996fa0f84f4a8b7e65fe4b8f0681711022034ea (2484) Upstream: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/0782c759084daaf9e4de7ee6be7543081823455e (2485) Upstream: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/662f74445b2fea2eeb759c6524661118aef567ca (2486) Upstream: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/1f7359b00663804d96c3a102bcb6ead9812c1509 (2496 and 2497) |
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Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | 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://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/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
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2485
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2486
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2496
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2497
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2500