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Debian: CVE-2016-10270: tiff -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-10270: tiff -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/24/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/04/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 8" and libtiff/tif_read.c:523:22.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-tiff

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