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Debian: CVE-2019-14973: tiff -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-14973: tiff -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/14/2019
Created
08/28/2019
Added
08/27/2019
Modified
05/04/2020

Description

_TIFFCheckMalloc and _TIFFCheckRealloc in tif_aux.c in LibTIFF through 4.0.10 mishandle Integer Overflow checks because they rely on compiler behavior that is undefined by the applicable C standards. This can, for example, lead to an application crash.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-tiff

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