Buffer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2015-8665

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Buffer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2015-8665

Published: April 13, 2016 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32276
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8665
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

tif_getimage.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via the SamplesPerPixel tag in a TIFF image.


Affected software

LibTIFF
tiff (Alpine package)
libtiff3
tiff
libtiff3-32bit
tiff-debuginfo
tiff-debugsource
libtiff
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Slackware Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2015-8665

Install update from vendor's website.

tiff (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 4.0.6-r1, 4.0.6-r2, 4.0.6-r3
libtiff3 - update to 3.8.2-141.169.34.1
tiff - update to 3.8.2-141.169.34.1
libtiff3-32bit - update to 3.8.2-141.169.34.1
tiff-debuginfo - update to 3.8.2-141.169.34.1
tiff-debugsource - update to 3.8.2-141.169.34.1
libtiff - update to 4.0.7

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