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CVE-2016-5102

Publication date 6 February 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in gif2tiff.c in the gif2tiff tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted gif file.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4
15.10 wily Ignored
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9
12.04 LTS precise Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

upstream removed the gif2tiff utility in 4.0.7 we will not be fixing this issue in precise/esm

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3606-1
    • LibTIFF vulnerabilities
    • 26 March 2018

Other references