Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201911-13

Severity: Medium
Date : 2019-11-13
CVE-ID : CVE-2019-6128 CVE-2019-7663
Package : libtiff
Type : denial of service
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-886

Summary

The package libtiff before version 4.1.0-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution

Upgrade to 4.1.0-1.

pacman -Syu “libtiff>=4.1.0-1”

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 4.1.0.

Workaround

None.

Description

• CVE-2019-6128 (denial of service)

The TIFFFdOpen function in tif_unix.c in LibTIFF 4.0.10 has a memory
leak, as demonstrated by pal2rgb.

• CVE-2019-7663 (denial of service)

An Invalid Address dereference was discovered in
TIFFWriteDirectoryTagTransferfunction in libtiff/tif_dirwrite.c in
LibTIFF 4.0.10, affecting the cpSeparateBufToContigBuf function in
tiffcp.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a
denial-of-service via a crafted tiff file.

Impact

A remote attacker is able to cause a denial of service.

References

https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/ae0bed1fe530a82faf2e9ea1775109dbf301a971
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/802d3cbf3043be5dce5317e140ccb1c17a6a2d39
https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/merge_requests/60
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2019-6128
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2019-7663