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Debian: CVE-2016-6223: tiff, tiff3 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-6223: tiff, tiff3 -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/13/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/14/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

The TIFFReadRawStrip1 and TIFFReadRawTile1 functions in tif_read.c in libtiff before 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly obtain sensitive information via a negative index in a file-content buffer.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-tiff
  • debian-upgrade-tiff3

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