vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-7599: libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 9, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

LibTIFF 4.0.7 has an "outside the range of representable values of type short" undefined behavior issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-tiff
Title
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