CVE-2013-4243
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.8
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Debian Mixed 7 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 4.0.3-9 |
| sid | Fixed | 4.0.3-9 |
| forky | Fixed | 4.0.3-9 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 4.0.3-9 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4.0.3-9 |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
| 6.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| libtiff | libtiff | {"endIncluding":"4.0.3"} | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.4 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.5.1 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.5.2 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.5.3 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.5.4 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.5.5 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.5.6 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.5.7 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.6.0 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.6.1 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.7.0 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.7.1 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.7.2 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.7.3 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.7.4 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.8.0 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.8.1 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.8.2 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.9 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.9.0 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.9.1 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.9.2 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.9.2-5.2.1 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.9.3 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.9.4 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 3.9.5 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 4.0 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 4.0.1 | |
| libtiff | libtiff | 4.0.2 | |
References
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2451
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0223.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54543
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54628
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2744
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62082
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996052
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4243
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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