Bug 2297636

Summary:	libtiff: Out-of-memory issue in TIFFReadEncodedStrip() may lead to Denial of Service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marco Benatto <mbenatto>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bdettelb, dfreiber, doconnor, d.perry, drow, gsuckevi, jburrell, mhlavink, teagle, vkumar
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the libtiff library. An out-of-memory issue in the TIFFReadEncodedStrip function can be triggered when processing a crafted TIFF file, allowing attackers to perform memory allocation of arbitrary sizes, resulting in a denial of service.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2297637, 2297638, 2297639, 2297641
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Description Marco Benatto 2024-07-12 18:18:40 UTC

A flaw was found in the libtiff library. An out-of-memory issue in the TIFFReadEncodedStrip function can be triggered when processing a crafted tiff file, allowing attackers to perform memory allocation of arbitrary sizes, resulting in a denial of service.

Reference:
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/620

Upstream patch:
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/merge_requests/553

Comment 1 Michal Hlavinka 2024-07-30 13:10:49 UTC

Hi, I've checked the provided upstream report which was resolved as "documentation change only". Also assigned cve id has changed to 'rejected':
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6716 Should we close this tracker and blocking bugs?

Comment 3 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2024-09-04 16:06:37 UTC

The CVE-2024-6716[1] has been rejected as well.

[1]. https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6716