CVE-2017-9117

Published: 21 May 2017

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, the program processes BMP images without verifying that biWidth and biHeight in the bitmap-information header match the actual input, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in bmp2tiff.

Notes

likely only affects bmp2tiff binary, which was removed in
4.0.7 or 4.0.8

proposed patch in upstream bug
bmp2tiff removed in recent versions
same fix as CVE-2017-5563
we will not be fixing this issue in precise/esm

Priority

Low

CVSS 3 base score: 9.8

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9117
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3606-1
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2690