Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-5652  

An exploitable heap based buffer overflow exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF’s TIFF2PDF tool. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a heap based buffer overflow via JPEG Compression Tables resulting in remote code execution. This vulnerability can be triggered via a saved TIFF file delivered by other means.

Severity High

Remote No

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

An exploitable heap based buffer overflow exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF’s TIFF2PDF tool. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a heap based buffer overflow via JPEG Compression Tables resulting in remote code execution. This vulnerability can be triggered via a saved TIFF file delivered by other means.

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://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0187/
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/b5d6803f0898e931cf772d3d0755704ab8488e63