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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5225: tiff Heap-buffer overflow in tools/tiffcp via crafted BitsPerSample value

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-5225: tiff Heap-buffer overflow in tools/tiffcp via crafted BitsPerSample value

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/12/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
12/05/2019

Description

LibTIFF version 4.0.7 is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in the tools/tiffcp resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted BitsPerSample value.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-tiff

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