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SUSE: CVE-2017-17942: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-17942: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/28/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/12/2018
Modified
08/21/2021

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libtiff-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff3
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff3-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff3-x86
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff5
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff5-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-tiff

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:2676-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:2836-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:3879-1
  • CVE-2017-17942

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