Executive Summary



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Summary
Title libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-202003-25 First vendor Publication 2020-03-15
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2020-03-15
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in LibTIFF, the worst of which could result in a Denial of Service condition.

Background

The TIFF library contains encoding and decoding routines for the Tag Image File Format. It is called by numerous programs, including GNOME and KDE applications, to interpret TIFF images.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libTIFF. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker, by enticing the user to process a specially crafted TIFF file, could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All libTIFF users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-libs/tiff-4.1.0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-17095 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17095
[ 2 ] CVE-2018-19210 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19210
[ 3 ] CVE-2019-17546 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17546
[ 4 ] CVE-2019-6128 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6128
[ 5 ] CVE-2019-7663 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-7663

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-25

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202003-25.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
20 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
20 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
20 % CWE-401 Failure to Release Memory Before Removing Last Reference ('Memory Leak')
20 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)
20 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 68
Os 5
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-12-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4349.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-07-24 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0017.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2020-03-15 17:18:26
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