Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-17942

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function PackBitsEncode in tifpackbits.c. CVE-2017-17942 Note that Nessus relies on the presence...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2018-0409)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2018:3879-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

openSUSE Security Update : tiff (openSUSE-2018-1056)

This update for tiff fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-10779: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in TIFFWriteScanline in tifwrite.c bsc1092480 - CVE-2017-17942: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in the function PackBitsEncode in tifpackbits.c. bsc1074186 -...

SUSE-SU-2018:2836-1 Security update for tiff

This update for tiff fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-10779: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in TIFFWriteScanline in tifwrite.c bsc1092480 - CVE-2017-17942: Fixed a heap-based buffer overflow in the function PackBitsEncode in tifpackbits.c. bsc1074186 -...

CVE-2017-17942

CVE-2017-17942 affects LibTIFF 4.0.9 where a heap-based buffer overflow can occur in PackBitsEncode (tif_packbits.c) due to improper bounds checking. This could allow remote code execution via a crafted TIFF image. IBM/DSA Preboot remediation fixes are available (dsyte2z-9.65). The connected sour...