Description
In LibTIFF 4.0.6 and possibly other versions, the program processes BMP images without verifying that biWidth and biHeight in the bitmap-information header match the actual input, as demonstrated by a heap-based buffer over-read in bmp2tiff. NOTE: mentioning bmp2tiff does not imply that the activation point is in the bmp2tiff.c file (which was removed before the 4.0.7 release).
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2690
Issue Tracking
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/89
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98581
Scores
CVSS v3
4.0
EPSS
0.0011
EPSS Percentile
29.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Details
CWE
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
17.10
libtiff/libtiff
4.0.7
LibTIFF/LibTIFF
4.0.6
Published
May 21, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026