PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-10-03
Candidate: CVE-2016-3658
PublicDate: 2016-10-03 16:09:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3658
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/08/12
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3212-1
Description:
 The TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the
 tiffset tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause
 a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via vectors involving the ma
 variable.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> this will not be fixed in precise/esm
Bugs:
 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2500
 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2546
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Kaixiang Zhang
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_tiff:
 upstream: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/45c68450bef8ad876f310b495165c513cad8b67d
upstream_tiff: released (4.0.7)
precise_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_tiff: ignored
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: not-affected (4.0.7-1)
artful_tiff: not-affected (4.0.7-1)
devel_tiff: not-affected (4.0.7-1)