SB2025021419 - Integer overflow in LibTIFF
Published: February 14, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2025021419
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8870)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read), or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory.
The vulnerability exists in tools/bmp2tiff.c in LibTIFF. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted width and length values in RLE4 or RLE8 data in a BMP file to the application, trigger integer overflow and cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read), or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.