[Secure-testing-team] Bug#866113: tiff: CVE-2017-9936: Memory leak in tif_jbig.c can lead to DoS

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: tiff
Version: 4.0.8-2
Severity: important
Tags: security patch upstream fixed-upstream
Forwarded: http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2706

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for tiff.

CVE-2017-9936[0]:
| In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a memory leak in tif_jbig.c. A crafted TIFF
| document can lead to a memory leak resulting in a remote denial of
| service attack.

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-2017-9936
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9936
[1] http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2706
[2] https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/fe8d7165956b88df4837034a9161dc5fd20cf67a

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Only sid
version has been verified at the time of writing this bugreport.

Regards,
Salvatore