PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-01-08
Candidate: CVE-2015-8668
PublicDate: 2016-01-08 19:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8668
 http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Dec/138
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3212-1
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3212-3
Description:
 Heap-based buffer overflow in the PackBitsPreEncode function in
 tif_packbits.c in bmp2tiff in libtiff 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote
 attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a
 large width field in a BMP image.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> upstream removed the bmp2tiff utility in 4.0.7
 mdeslaur> RHEL patch is incomplete
Bugs:
 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2563
Priority: low
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-2015-8668.patch
upstream_tiff: released (4.0.6-3)
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_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
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: not-affected (4.0.7-1)
devel_tiff: not-affected (4.0.7-1)