Bug 624602 (CVE-2017-9403)

Summary:	<media-libs/tiff-4.0.8: Denial of Service vulnerability (memory leak)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Ian Zimmerman <nobrowser>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	graphics+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9403
Whiteboard:	B3 [glsa cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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

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).