Denial of Service Vulnerability in LibTIFF 4.0.8 TIFFOpen Function

CVE-2017-11613 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a denial of service vulnerability in the TIFFOpen function. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack. During the TIFFOpen process, td_imagelength is not checked. The value of td_imagelength can be directly controlled by an input file. In the ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip function, the _TIFFCheckMalloc function is called based on td_imagelength. If we set the value of td_imagelength close to the amount of system memory, it will hang the system or trigger the OOM killer.

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