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SUSE: CVE-2017-12944: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-12944: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/18/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
12/09/2018
Modified
10/22/2021

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)

  • suse-upgrade-libtiff-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff5
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff5-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-tiff

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:4008-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:4191-1
  • USN-3602-1
  • USN-3606-1
  • DSA-4100
  • CVE-2017-12944

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