Heap-based Buffer Overflow in LibTIFF 4.0.8 via PlanarConfig=Contig Image

CVE-2017-11335 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

There is a heap based buffer overflow in tools/tiff2pdf.c of LibTIFF 4.0.8 via a PlanarConfig=Contig image, which causes a more than one hundred bytes out-of-bounds write (related to the ZIPDecode function in tif_zip.c). A crafted input may lead to a remote denial of service attack or an arbitrary code execution attack.

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