CVE-2017-5849

MEDIUM

Fedora - Out-of-Bounds Write

Title source: rule

Description

tiffttopnm in netpbm 10.47.63 does not properly use the libtiff TIFFRGBAImageGet function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and write) via a crafted tiff image file, related to transposing width and height values.

References (6)

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2654

[Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2655

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/2

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96011

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AF42A624FXVY3BYBHMAO6F2X7EJYHQE2/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LDK3BDMKIQL2NQ3SJZXPBEN2LSOUSSEE/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0023

EPSS Percentile 46.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-125 CWE-787

Status published

Affected Products (4)

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

netpbm_project/netpbm

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Mar 15, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026