Out-of-bounds read in Debian Linux - CVE-2016-9532
Published: February 6, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU39732
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-2016-9532
CWE-ID: CWE-125
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.
Integer overflow in the writeBufferToSeparateStrips function in tiffcrop.c in LibTIFF before 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted tif file.
Affected software
Debian Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
libtiff
Amazon Linux AMI
libtiff
How to mitigate CVE-2016-9532
Install update from vendor's website.
libtiff - update to 4.0.3-35.38
External References
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2592
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/11/14
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/21/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/22/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94424
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397726
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16