Bug 1470241 (CVE-2017-10688) - CVE-2017-10688 libtiff: Assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function
Summary: CVE-2017-10688 libtiff: Assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLo...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-10688
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1469734 1469735 1469736
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-12 14:50 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:16:23 UTC

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-07-12 14:50:34 UTC 
In LibTIFF there is a assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack. 

Upstream issue:

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2712
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-07-12 14:52:25 UTC 
Created libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1469734]


Created mingw-libtiff tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1469735]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1469736]
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