CVE-2016-5323

Publication date 20 January 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

The _TIFFFax3fillruns function in libtiff before 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted Tiff image.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.1
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.6
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

possibly same fix as CVE-2016-5321 this will not be fixed in precise/esm

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: d9783e4 Upstream: 2f79856

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3212-1
LibTIFF vulnerabilities
27 February 2017