CVE-2014-8127

Publication date 31 December 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	14.10 utopic	Fixed 4.0.3-10ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.2
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.7
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.15

Notes

mdeslaur

usn-2553-1 didn't actually fix the issue in bug #2500 as no patch was available at the time of publication. A future update will include a patch for the issue.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: 3996fa0 Upstream: 0782c75 Upstream: 662f744 Upstream: 1f7359b

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2553-1
LibTIFF vulnerabilities
31 March 2015