CVE-2013-4243

Publication date 10 September 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.1
13.10 saucy
Fixed 4.0.2-4ubuntu3.1
13.04 raring Ignored end of life
12.10 quantal
Fixed 4.0.2-1ubuntu2.3
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.6
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.14
tiff3 14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
13.10 saucy
Not affected
13.04 raring
Not affected
12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release

Notes

jdstrand

per Debian, tiff3 source package doesn't build the TIFF tools

mdeslaur

as of 2014-03-10, no upstream fix yet

Patch details

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Package Patch details
tiff

References

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