CVE-2015-8781

Publication date 1 February 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

tif_luv.c in libtiff allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via an invalid number of samples per pixel in a LogL compressed TIFF image, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8782.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Fixed 4.0.3-12.3ubuntu2.1
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.4
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.9

Notes

mdeslaur

hits assert

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: aaab5c3

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2939-1
LibTIFF vulnerabilities
23 March 2016