Bug 1441259 – CVE-2017-7599 libtiff: Unsigned short out of range in tif_dirwrite.c

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Bug 1441259 - (CVE-2017-7599) CVE-2017-7599 libtiff: Unsigned short out of range in tif_dirwrite.c

Summary:	CVE-2017-7599 libtiff: Unsigned short out of range in tif_dirwrite.c

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2017-7599

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

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1438466 1438465 1441273
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Reported:	2017-04-11 09:53 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2017-04-11 10:35 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-11 09:53:13 EDT

LibTIFF has an "outside the range of representable values of type short" undefined behavior issue, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image. 

Upstream bug:

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2646

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/3144e57770c1e4d26520d8abee750f8ac8b75490

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-11 10:18:22 EDT

Created mingw-libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1438465]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-11 10:22:42 EDT

Created mingw-libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1438466]

Comment 3 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-11 10:25:15 EDT

Created libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1441273]

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