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Ubuntu: USN-3602-1 (CVE-2017-9403): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3602-1 (CVE-2017-9403): LibTIFF vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/02/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/25/2018
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array in tif_dirread.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Solution(s)

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

References

  • USN-3602-1
  • USN-3606-1
  • DLA-983-1
  • DLA-984-1
  • DSA-3903
  • CVE-2017-9403

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