SB2025021419 - Integer overflow in LibTIFF

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.

1) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8870)

CWE-ID: CWE-190 - Integer overflow

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

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read), or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory.

The vulnerability exists in tools/bmp2tiff.c in LibTIFF. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted width and length values in RLE4 or RLE8 data in a BMP file to the application, trigger integer overflow and cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read), or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.4.tar.gz
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0225.html
• http://www.floyd.ch/?p=874BMP
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94717