Mageia: 2018-0409 Moderate: LibTIFF Heap Overflow and Remote Exploit
mageia
October 20, 2018
Heap-based buffer overflow in tif_packbits.c in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to crash the application via a crafted bmp file (CVE-2016-5319)
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in tif_packbits.c in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier
allows remote attackers to crash the application via a crafted bmp file
(CVE-2016-5319).
In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function
PackBitsEncode in tif_packbits.c (CVE-2017-17942).
TIFFWriteScanline in tif_write.c in LibTIFF 3.8.2 has a heap-based buffer
over-read, as demonstrated by bmp2tiff (CVE-2018-10779).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23142
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5319
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17942
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10779
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/libtiff-4.0.9-1.6.mga6
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Publication date: 20 Oct 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0409.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2016-5319,
CVE-2017-17942,
CVE-2018-10779
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