Bug 1488887 (CVE-2017-13727) - CVE-2017-13727 libtiff: Reachable assertion abort in the function TIFFWriteDirectoryTagSubifd()
Summary: CVE-2017-13727 libtiff: Reachable assertion abort in the function TIFFWriteDi...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-13727
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: 1474372 1474373 1474374 1910615
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-06 11:58 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2022-04-17 20:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:24:25 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 11:58:04 UTC 
There is a reachable assertion abort in the function TIFFWriteDirectoryTagSubifd() 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=2728
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 11:59:25 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]
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