CVE-2015-8683 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Tiff

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer7 documents7 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 56.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Debian TiffDebian LinuxLibtiff
Timeline
PublishedApr 13
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a packed TIFF image.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDlibtiff/libtiff4.0.6
▶debiandebian/tiff< tiff 4.0.6-1 (bookworm)

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-2vqh-xv99-28cc: The putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2015-8683: The putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage↗2016-04-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
LibTIFF vulnerabilities↗2016-03-23
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Red Hat
libtiff: Out-of-bounds when reading CIE Lab image format files↗2015-12-25
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Debian
CVE-2015-8683: tiff - The putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remot...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8683 libtiff: Out-of-bounds when reading CIE Lab image format files↗2015-12-28
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