Memory corruption in LibTIFF - CVE-2016-10268
Published: May 15, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU12653
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10268
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to integer underflow and heap-based buffer under-read. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 78490" and libtiff/tif_unix.c:115:23, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
The weakness exists due to integer underflow and heap-based buffer under-read. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 78490" and libtiff/tif_unix.c:115:23, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
Affected software
LibTIFF
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
tiff (Alpine package)
libtiff
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
tiff (Alpine package)
libtiff
How to mitigate CVE-2016-10268
Install update from vendor's website.
tiff (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 4.0.7-r3, 4.0.8-r0
libtiff - addressed in versions 4.0.7-4.fc25, 4.0.7-4.fc26
libtiff - addressed in versions 4.0.7-4.fc25, 4.0.7-4.fc26