Input validation error in LibTIFF - CVE-2013-4231

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Input validation error in LibTIFF - CVE-2013-4231

Published: January 19, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32624
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4231
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted (1) extension block in a GIF image or (2) GIF raster image to tools/gif2tiff.c or (3) a long filename for a TIFF image to tools/rgb2ycbcr.c.


Affected software

LibTIFF
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
Slackware Linux
tiff (Alpine package)
libtiff4 (Ubuntu package)
libtiff5 (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2013-4231

Update to version 4.0.3.

LibTIFF - update to 4.0.3
tiff (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 4.0.3-r2, 4.0.3-r3
libtiff4 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.14, 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.6
libtiff5 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 4.0.2-1ubuntu2.3, 4.0.2-4ubuntu3.1, 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.1

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