SB2017050118 - Memory corruption in tiff (Alpine package)
Published: May 1, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017050118
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10268)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to integer underflow and heap-based buffer under-read. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 78490" and libtiff/tif_unix.c:115:23, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=6fc5e083a79961213cb7151c39372e5dee115a45
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=ff2e7d109f90f775c735acb314bf37b0008f428c
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=a07d9f929286a0f3ccf9ea20f55c62b03f91c4c4
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=fa18ed2287bf127951d71bdf233db44b1e923739