[Secure-testing-team] Bug#850316: tiff: CVE-2016-10095: stack-based buffer overflow in _TIFFVGetField (tif_dir.c)

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: tiff
Version: 4.0.7-3
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2625

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for tiff.

CVE-2016-10095[0]:
stack-based buffer overflow in _TIFFVGetField (tif_dir.c)

No patch is available upstream TTBOMK so far. The issue can be
verified by a ASAN build of tiff, using the reproducer file with
tiffsplit.

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-2016-10095
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10095
[1] http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2625

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore