vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2015-8870: Moderate: libtiff security update (RHSA-2017:0225)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 6, 2016
Added
Feb 3, 2017
Modified
Feb 19, 2026

Description

Integer overflow in tools/bmp2tiff.c in LibTIFF before 4.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read), or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory, via crafted width and length values in RLE4 or RLE8 data in a BMP file.

Solutions

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