CVE-2016-5652: Buffer Overflow
First published: Fri Jan 06 2017(Updated: )
An exploitable heap-based buffer overflow exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF's TIFF2PDF tool. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow resulting in remote code execution. Vulnerability can be triggered via a saved TIFF file delivered by other means.
Credit: cret@cert.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| debian/tiff | 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u4 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u8 4.2.0-1+deb11u4 4.5.0-6 4.5.1+git230720-1 | |
| Libtiff Libtiff | =4.0.6 |
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Reference Links
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0187/
- https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/b5d6803f0898e931cf772d3d0755704ab8488e63
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5652
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0225.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93902
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
- collector/security-tracker-debian
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/references
- agent/author
- agent/type
- agent/description
- agent/event
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- package-manager/debian
- vendor/libtiff
- canonical/libtiff libtiff
- version/libtiff libtiff/4.0.6