Source: tiff Version: 4.0.3-12.3 Severity: important Tags: patch security upstream Forwarded: http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2728
Hi, the following vulnerability was published for tiff. CVE-2017-13727[0]: | There is a reachable assertion abort in the function | TIFFWriteDirectoryTagSubifd() in LibTIFF 4.0.8, related to | tif_dirwrite.c and a SubIFD tag. A crafted input will lead to a remote | denial of service attack. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13727 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13727 [1] http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2728 [2] https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/b6af137bf9ef852f1a48a50a5afb88f9e9da01cc Regards, Salvatore

