PublicDateAtUSN: 2015-12-31
Candidate: CVE-2015-8683
PublicDate: 2016-04-13 17:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8683
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/25/1
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2939-1
Description:
 The putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows
 remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a
 packed TIFF image.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> same fix as CVE-2015-8665
Bugs:
 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809021
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [5.5 MEDIUM]

Patches_tiff:
 upstream: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/f94a29a822f5528d2334592760fbb7938f15eb55
upstream_tiff: released (4.0.6-1)
precise_tiff: released (3.9.5-2ubuntu1.9)
precise/esm_tiff: released (3.9.5-2ubuntu1.9)
trusty_tiff: released (4.0.3-7ubuntu0.4)
trusty/esm_tiff: released (4.0.3-7ubuntu0.4)
vivid_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/ubuntu-core_tiff: DNE
wily_tiff: released (4.0.3-12.3ubuntu2.1)
xenial_tiff: not-affected (4.0.6-1)
esm-infra/xenial_tiff: not-affected (4.0.6-1)
yakkety_tiff: not-affected (4.0.6-1)
zesty_tiff: not-affected (4.0.6-1)
devel_tiff: not-affected (4.0.6-1)