CVE-2014-9655

Published: 7 February 2015

The (1) putcontig8bitYCbCr21tile function in tif_getimage.c or (2) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in LibTIFF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access) via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by libtiff-cvs-1.tif and libtiff-cvs-2.tif.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
tiff Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	lucid	Released (3.9.2-2ubuntu0.15)
	precise	Released (3.9.5-2ubuntu1.7)
	trusty	Released (4.0.3-7ubuntu0.2)
	upstream	Needs triage
	utopic	Released (4.0.3-10ubuntu0.1)
	Patches: upstream: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/24a2eee78bb057acb2c3992acd002654c1747718 upstream: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/40a5955cbf0df62b1f9e9bd7d9657b0070725d19 upstream: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/feed76c99f132f02a938de3b566442bff61388ef

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777390

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