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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1391-1 tiff -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

31 May 2018

Affected Packages:

tiff

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-11613, CVE-2018-5784.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the libtiff library and the included tools, which may result in denial of service:

• CVE-2017-11613

  Ddenial of service vulnerability in the TIFFOpen function. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack and can either make the system hand or trigger the OOM killer.

• CVE-2018-5784

  There is an uncontrolled resource consumption in TIFFSetDirectory function of src/libtiff/tif_dir.c, which can cause denial of service through a crafted tif file.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-6+deb7u21.

We recommend that you upgrade your tiff packages.

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