CVE-2013-4244

MEDIUM

Description

The LZW decompressor in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted GIF image.

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2452

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0223.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996468

https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/ce6841d9e41d621ba23cf18b190ee6a23b2cc833

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2013-09-28

Updated: 2014-03-06

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM