Denial of service in LibTIFF - CVE-2017-10688

 

Denial of service in LibTIFF - CVE-2017-10688

Published: July 11, 2017 / Updated: September 14, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7407
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10688
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vendor: LibTIFF
Affected software:
LibTIFF

Detailed vulnerability description

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.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-10688

Update to version 4.0.8-3.

Sources