| Name | CVE-2016-9297 |
| Description | The TIFFFetchNormalTag function in LibTiff 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted TIFF_SETGET_C16ASCII or TIFF_SETGET_C32_ASCII tag values. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-716-1, DSA-3762-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 844226 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| tiff (PTS) | buster | 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u9 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 4.2.0-1+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 4.5.0-6+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.5.1+git230720-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - tiff3 <not-affected> (Unreproducible)
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2590
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/12/2
Patch https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/30c9234c7fd0dd5e8b1e83ad44370c875a0270ed
Reproducible with valgrind in wheezy with 4.0.2-6+deb7u7
Reproducible with valgrind in jessie with 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u1
When fixing this CVE make sure to make the fix complete and not
introduce CVE-2016-9448 / http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2593
Fix in 4.0.7 is complete.
Patch CVE-2016-9448: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/89406285f318ffad27af4b200204394b2ee6ba5e