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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-9403: libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-9403: libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/02/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
11/06/2017

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array in tif_dirread.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-tiff

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