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ID:1261 - Exploit for Denial of service in LibTIFF - CVE-2017-10688
ID:1261 - Exploit for Denial of service in LibTIFF - CVE-2017-10688
Published: March 18, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7407
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10688
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Vulnerable software:
LibTIFF
LibTIFF
Link to public exploit:
Vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition.
The weakness exits due to assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c. A remote attacker can send specially crafted TIFF file and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
The weakness exits due to assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c. A remote attacker can send specially crafted TIFF file and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Update to version 4.0.8-3.