CVE-2017-9117

Publication date 21 May 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9

Notes

sbeattie

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

mdeslaur

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

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H