Integer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2018-17100

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Integer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2018-17100

Published: October 24, 2018 / Updated: October 25, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15531
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-2018-17100
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 vulnerability exists due to int32 overflow when insufficient validation of user-supplied input processed by the multiply_ms() function, as defined in the tools/ppm2tiff.c source code file. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trick the victim into opening or executing an image file that submits malicious input to the targeted system. A successful exploit could trigger memory corruption and cause the affected software to crash, resulting in a DoS condition.


Affected software

LibTIFF
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Opensuse
Fedora
tiff (Debian package)
tiff (Alpine package)
libtiff
Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot
Data Computing Appliance (DCA)

How to mitigate CVE-2018-17100

Install update from vendor's website.

tiff (Debian package) - update to 4.0.8-2+deb9u5
tiff (Alpine package) - update to 4.0.9-r6
Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot - update to dsyte2z-9.65
libtiff - addressed in versions 4.0.9-13.fc28, 4.0.9-13.fc29
Data Computing Appliance (DCA) - update to 4.3.0.0

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