Input validation error in LibTIFF - CVE-2017-7594

 

Input validation error in LibTIFF - CVE-2017-7594

Published: April 9, 2017 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33706
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-7594
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The OJPEGReadHeaderInfoSecTablesDcTable function in tif_ojpeg.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak) via a crafted image.


Affected software

LibTIFF
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
tiff (Alpine package)
libtiff

How to mitigate CVE-2017-7594

Install update from vendor's website.

LibTIFF - update to 4.0.8
tiff (Alpine package) - update to 4.0.7-r2
libtiff - addressed in versions 4.0.7-5.fc25, 4.0.7-5.fc26

External References

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