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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-10688: tiff Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-10688: tiff Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/20/2017
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-tiff

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