Source: tiff Version: 4.0.7-7 Severity: important Tags: upstream security Forwarded: http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2693
Hi Laszlo, the following vulnerability was published for tiff. CVE-2017-9147[0]: | LibTIFF 4.0.7 has an invalid read in the _TIFFVGetField function in | tif_dir.c, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of | service (crash) via a crafted TIFF file. Looking from the upstream bugreport at [1] and the affected code, cf. [2] I think this should affect us. But please double check, I might miss something? If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9147 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9147 [1] http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2693 [2] http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2693#c2 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards and thanks for your work, Salvatore
