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Ubuntu: USN-3606-1 (CVE-2017-9117): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3606-1 (CVE-2017-9117): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/21/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/25/2018
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, the program processes BMP images without verifying that biWidth and biHeight in the bitmap-information header match the actual input, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in bmp2tiff.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff-tools
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtiff5

References

  • USN-3602-1
  • USN-3606-1
  • CVE-2017-9117

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