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LIN6-13501 : Security Advisory - libtiff - CVE-2017-12944

Created: Aug 28, 2017 Updated: Dec 16, 2018

Resolved Date: Nov 18, 2018

Found In Version: 6.0.0.34

Fix Version: 6.0.0.38

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6

Component/s: Userspace

Description

The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read.c in LibTIFF 4.0.8 mishandles memory allocation for short files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (allocation failure and application crash) in the TIFFFetchStripThing function in tif_dirread.c during a tiff2pdf invocation.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12944

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Wind River Linux 6.0.0.38