#VU103977 Integer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2015-8870
Published: February 14, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU103977
Vulnerability risk: High
CVSSv4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8870
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
LibTIFF
LibTIFF
Software vendor:
LibTIFF
LibTIFF
Description
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
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..