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DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8127

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesStr...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 tiff

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.0.6-3"}]}]

Debian:13 tiff

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.0.6-3"}]}]

Debian:14 tiff

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.0.6-3"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org