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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-17942: Vulnerability in GIMP

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-17942: Vulnerability in GIMP

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/28/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/17/2018
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function PackBitsEncode in tif_packbits.c.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-image-library-libtiff-4-0-9-11-4-4-0-1-2-0

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