Stack-based buffer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2016-10095

 

Stack-based buffer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2016-10095

Published: July 11, 2017 / Updated: July 13, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7402
CSH Severity: Low
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-2016-10095
CWE-ID: CWE-121
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition.

The weakness exits due to stack-based buffer overflow in the _TIFFVGetField function in tif_dir.c. A remote attacker can send specially crafted TIFF file and cause the application to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

Affected software

LibTIFF
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
Slackware Linux
Fedora
Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot
libtiff
mingw-libtiff

How to mitigate CVE-2016-10095

Update to version 4.0.8-3.

Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot - update to dsyte2z-9.65
libtiff - update to 4.0.9
mingw-libtiff - update to 4.0.9-1.fc28

External References

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