Bug 1395264 – CVE-2016-9297 libtiff: Out-of-bounds heap read in _TIFFPrintField (tif_print.c:127)

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Bug 1395264 - (CVE-2016-9297) CVE-2016-9297 libtiff: Out-of-bounds heap read in _TIFFPrintField (tif_print.c:127)

Summary:	CVE-2016-9297 libtiff: Out-of-bounds heap read in _TIFFPrintField (tif_print....

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-9297

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Duplicates:	1395165 (view as bug list)
Depends On:	1395266 1395166 1395167
Blocks:	1395169
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Reported:	2016-11-15 09:30 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2016-11-29 07:39 EST (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Doc Text:	An out-of-bounds heap read was discovered in libtiff. A crafted file could cause the application to crash or, potentially, disclose process memory.
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Last Closed:	2016-11-23 02:12:47 EST
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-11-15 09:30:11 EST

A segmentation fault is possible when parsing a malicious file with libtiff.

Upstream bug:

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2590

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-11-15 09:32:01 EST

Created mingw-libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1395266]

Comment 2 Doran Moppert 2016-11-17 02:10:45 EST

*** Bug 1395165 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Doran Moppert 2016-11-23 02:13:43 EST

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security
impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future
updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity
Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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