Bug 1488886 (CVE-2017-13726)

Summary: CVE-2017-13726 libtiff: Reachable assertion abort in the function TIFFWriteDirectorySec()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: erik-fedora, mike, nforro, phracek
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Bug Depends On: 1474372, 1474373, 1474374, 1910614    
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 11:57:01 UTC
There is a reachable assertion abort in the function TIFFWriteDirectorySec() in LibTIFF 4.0.8, related to tif_dirwrite.c and a SubIFD tag. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack.

Upstream issue:

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2727

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 11:59:16 UTC
Created libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1474373]


Created mingw-libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1474372]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1474374]