Denial of service in LibTIFF - CVE-2017-10688
Published: July 11, 2017 / Updated: September 14, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7407
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-2017-10688
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition.
The weakness exits due to assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.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.
The weakness exits due to assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.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
tiff (Alpine package)
Debian Linux
tiff (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2017-10688
Update to version 4.0.8-3.
tiff (Alpine package) - update to 4.0.8-r0