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SUSE: CVE-2015-8870: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2015-8870: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/06/2016
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/24/2018
Modified
11/24/2018

Description

Integer overflow in tools/bmp2tiff.c in LibTIFF before 4.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read), or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory, via crafted width and length values in RLE4 or RLE8 data in a BMP file.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libtiff-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff3
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff3-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libtiff3-x86
  • suse-upgrade-tiff

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