Mageia: 2018-0426 Critical: LibTIFF Denial Of Service Threat
mageia
October 30, 2018
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9
Summary
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities:
An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There is a int32 overflow in
multiply_ms in tools/ppm2tiff.c, which can cause a denial of service
(crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image
file (CVE-2018-17100).
An issue was discovered in LibTIFF 4.0.9. There are two out-of-bounds
writes in cpTags in tools/tiff2bw.c and tools/pal2rgb.c, which can cause
a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other
impact via a crafted image file (CVE-2018-17101).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23753
- - - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17100
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17101
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/libtiff-4.0.9-1.7.mga6
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Publication date: 30 Oct 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0426.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-17100,
CVE-2018-17101
Topics Covered
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