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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-12944: libtiff security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-12944: libtiff security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/18/2017
Created
11/20/2019
Added
11/19/2019
Modified
11/19/2019

Description

The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read.c in LibTIFF 4.0.8 mishandles memory allocation for short files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (allocation failure and application crash) in the TIFFFetchStripThing function in tif_dirread.c during a tiff2pdf invocation.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libtiff
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libtiff-devel

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