PublicDateAtUSN: 2017-05-21
Candidate: CVE-2017-9117
PublicDate: 2017-05-21 19:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9117
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3606-1
Description:
 In LibTIFF 4.0.7, the program processes BMP images without verifying that
 biWidth and biHeight in the bitmap-information header match the actual
 input, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in bmp2tiff.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 sbeattie> likely only affects bmp2tiff binary, which was removed in
   4.0.7 or 4.0.8
 mdeslaur> proposed patch in upstream bug
 mdeslaur> bmp2tiff removed in recent versions
 mdeslaur> same fix as CVE-2017-5563
 mdeslaur> we will not be fixing this issue in precise/esm
Bugs:
 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2690
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:
upstream_tiff: needs-triage
precise/esm_tiff: ignored
trusty_tiff: released (4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9)
trusty/esm_tiff: released (4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/ubuntu-core_tiff: DNE
xenial_tiff: released (4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4)
esm-infra/xenial_tiff: released (4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4)
yakkety_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_tiff: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_tiff: not-affected (4.0.8-5)
devel_tiff: not-affected (4.0.9-4)