PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-01-08
Candidate: CVE-2015-7554
PublicDate: 2016-01-08 19:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7554
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/26/7
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3212-1
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3212-3
Description:
 The _TIFFVGetField function in tif_dir.c in libtiff 4.0.6 allows attackers
 to cause a denial of service (invalid memory write and crash) or possibly
 have unspecified other impact via crafted field data in an extension tag in
 a TIFF image.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> partial fix in RHEL
 sbeattie> debian incorporated partial fix in 4.0.7-7
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809066
 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960341
 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2564
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [9.8 CRITICAL]

Patches_tiff:
 vendor: https://git.centos.org/blob/rpms!libtiff.git/1ad9335dc0c1325262c62842eda01476243ec821/SOURCES!libtiff-CVE-2015-7554.patch
 upstream: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/4d4fa0b68ae9ae038959ee4f69ebe288ec892f06
upstream_tiff: released (4.0.7-7)
precise_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_tiff: released (3.9.5-2ubuntu1.10)
trusty_tiff: released (4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6)
trusty/esm_tiff: released (4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/ubuntu-core_tiff: DNE
wily_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_tiff: released (4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1)
esm-infra/xenial_tiff: released (4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1)
yakkety_tiff: released (4.0.6-2ubuntu0.1)
zesty_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_tiff: not-affected (4.0.8-5)
devel_tiff: not-affected (4.0.9-4)