| Name | CVE-2016-9453 |
| Description | The t2p_readwrite_pdf_image_tile function in LibTIFF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a JPEG file with a TIFFTAG_JPEGTABLES of length one. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3762-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| tiff (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u17 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4.0.8-2+deb9u8 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.0.8-2+deb9u12 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u9 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 4.2.0-1+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 4.5.0-6+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.5.1+git230720-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| tiff | source | wheezy | 4.0.2-6+deb7u7 | | | |
| tiff | source | jessie | 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u2 | | DSA-3762-1 | |
| tiff | source | (unstable) | 4.0.6-3 | | | |
| tiff3 | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| tiff3 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
CVE-2016-9453 for wheezy fixed via CVE-2016-5652
[wheezy] - tiff3 <not-affected> (Tools not shipped by tiff3)
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2579
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/d2955714a4a0b8ca10941550cfbf64c7e111fbf1
For unstable this fix was included in the fix for TALOS-CAN-0187 / CVE-2016-5652
and included in patches/09-CVE-2016-5652.patch
Problem not reproducible in wheezy with 4.0.2-6+deb7u7, in jessie with 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u1, in both cases I get this output (but no segfault or error with valgrind):
TIFFReadDirectoryCheckOrder: Warning, Invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 1 (0x1) encountered.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, Unknown field with tag 3 (0x3) encountered.
TIFFReadDirectory: IO error during reading of "BitsPerSample".
tiff2pdf: Can't open input file ./CVE-2016-9453.tiff for reading.