Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-3945  

When libtiff's tiff2rgba handles a maliciously-crafted tiff file(width= 8388640, height=31) an illegal write happens. This vulnerability exists in the function cvt_by_strip (and cvt_by_tile ) due to an improper buffer allocation. An attacker may control the write address and/or value to result in denial-of-service or arbitrary code execution.

Severity High

Remote No

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

When libtiff's tiff2rgba handles a maliciously-crafted tiff file(width= 8388640, height=31) an illegal write happens. This vulnerability exists in the function cvt_by_strip (and cvt_by_tile ) due to an improper buffer allocation. An attacker may control the write address and/or value to result in denial-of-service or arbitrary code execution.

AVG-86 lib32-libtiff 4.0.6-2 4.0.7-1 Critical Fixed

AVG-85 libtiff 4.0.6-2 4.0.7-1 Critical Fixed

25 Nov 2016 ASA-201611-27 AVG-86 lib32-libtiff Critical multiple issues

25 Nov 2016 ASA-201611-26 AVG-85 libtiff Critical multiple issues

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/30
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2545