Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-7554  

An Invalid memory write flaw was found in libtiff in the way it parsed certain extension tags when reading TIFF format files. An attacker could use this flaw to crash or even execute arbitrary code with the permission of the user running such an application compiled against libtiff.

Severity Critical

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

An Invalid memory write flaw was found in libtiff in the way it parsed certain extension tags when reading TIFF format files. An attacker could use this flaw to crash or even execute arbitrary code with the permission of the user running such an application compiled against libtiff.

AVG-87 lib32-libtiff 4.0.7-1 4.0.8-1 Critical Fixed FS#54842

AVG-5 libtiff 4.0.8-1 4.0.8-2 Critical Fixed FS#54842

18 Jul 2017 ASA-201707-18 AVG-87 lib32-libtiff Critical arbitrary code execution

18 Jul 2017 ASA-201707-17 AVG-5 libtiff Critical arbitrary code execution

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/590
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2564