[Secure-testing-team] Bug#866611: tiff: CVE-2017-10688

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: tiff
Version: 4.0.8-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security
Forwarded: http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2712

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for tiff.

CVE-2017-10688[0]:
| In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a assertion abort in the
| TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c. A
| crafted input will lead to 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-2017-10688
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10688
[1] http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2712

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore