SB2017032410 - Out-of-bounds read in LibTIFF

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SB2017032410 - Out-of-bounds read in LibTIFF

Published: March 24, 2017 Updated: July 28, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2017032410
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10270)

CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in LibTIFF 4.0.7. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 8" and libtiff/tif_read.c:523:22.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

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