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Bug 624602 (CVE-2017-9403) - <media-libs/tiff-4.0.8: Denial of Service vulnerability (memory leak)
Summary: <media-libs/tiff-4.0.8: Denial of Service vulnerability (memory leak)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2017-9403
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-...
Whiteboard: B3 [glsa cve]
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Reported: 2017-07-11 18:33 UTC by Ian Zimmerman
Modified: 2017-09-26 22:12 UTC (History)
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Description Ian Zimmerman 2017-07-11 18:33:13 UTC 
According to the upstream report [1]:

The TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array function in tif_dirread.c:1919 allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak) via a crafted file.

Fix commit at [2]

[1]
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2689

[2]
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/fb3dc46a2fcf6197ff3b93fc76f0c37fddc0333b
Comment 1 D'juan McDonald (domhnall) 2017-09-04 00:43:33 UTC 
@maintainer(s), after bump, please call for stable if needed, thank you.

Daj'Uan (jmbailey/mbailey_j)
Gentoo Security Padawan
Comment 2 Christopher Díaz Riveros (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2017-09-26 14:46:29 UTC 
Stabilization in progress.

Refer to Bug 618610

Gentoo Security Padawan
ChrisADR
Comment 3 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-09-26 22:12:23 UTC 
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201709-27 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-27
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).