PublicDateAtUSN: 2017-01-06
Candidate: CVE-2016-5652
PublicDate: 2017-01-06 21:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5652
 http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0187/
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3212-1
Description:
 An exploitable heap-based buffer overflow exists in the handling of TIFF
 images in LibTIFF's TIFF2PDF tool. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a
 heap-based buffer overflow resulting in remote code execution.
 Vulnerability can be triggered via a saved TIFF file delivered by other
 means.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 sbeattie> occurs in TIFF2PDF tool.
 mdeslaur> this will not be fixed in precise/esm
Bugs:
 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842361
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Tyler Bohan
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [7.0 HIGH]

Patches_tiff:
 upstream: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/b5d6803f0898e931cf772d3d0755704ab8488e63
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)