CVE-2017-5563

Summary

CVECVE-2017-5563
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-01-23 07:59:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionLibTIFF version 4.0.7 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in tif_lzw.c resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted bmp image to tools/bmp2tiff.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libtiff Libtiff 4.0.7 All All All
Application Libtiff Libtiff 4.0.7 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201709-27) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Bug 2664 – heap-buffer-overflow in LZWEncode tif_lzw.c MISC bugzilla.maptools.org Issue Tracking
LibTIFF CVE-2017-5563 Heap Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
USN-3606-1: LibTIFF vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 670171 EulerOS Security Update for compat-libtiff3 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1671)
  • 670263 EulerOS Security Update for libtiff (EulerOS-SA-2021-1813)
  • 670602 EulerOS Security Update for compat-libtiff3 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2360)
  • 670925 EulerOS Security Update for compat-libtiff3 (EulerOS-SA-2021-2360)
  • 710406 Gentoo Linux libTIFF Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201709-27)
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