Integer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2015-8870

Vulnerability identifier: #VU103977

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4: 8.3 [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]

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8870

CWE-ID: CWE-190

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

LibTIFF
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for ARM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support
Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot
libtiff (Red Hat package)

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..

LibTIFF - update to 4.0.4
Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot - update to dsyte2z-9.65
libtiff (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 3.9.4-21.el6_8, 4.0.3-27.el7_3

• 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

• Integer overflow in LibTIFF
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 update for libtiff