PublicDateAtUSN: 2017-01-18
Candidate: CVE-2016-9297
PublicDate: 2017-01-18 17:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9297
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/12/2
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3212-1
Description:
 The TIFFFetchNormalTag function in LibTiff 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to
 cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted
 TIFF_SETGET_C16ASCII or TIFF_SETGET_C32_ASCII tag values.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 sbeattie> poc in in maptools.org bug entry
 tyhicks> The fix for this issue introduced a regression that has been assigned
  CVE-2016-9448
 mdeslaur> this will not be fixed in precise/esm
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=844226
 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2590
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Brian Carpenter
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/30c9234c7fd0dd5e8b1e83ad44370c875a0270ed
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)