CVE-2017-13727

NameCVE-2017-13727
DescriptionThere 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1093-1, DSA-4100-1
Debian Bugs873879

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
tiff (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)4.0.3-12.3+deb8u16fixed
stretch (security)4.0.8-2+deb9u8fixed
stretch (lts), stretch4.0.8-2+deb9u11fixed
buster4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u4fixed
buster (security)4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u9fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye4.2.0-1+deb11u5fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm4.5.0-6+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie4.5.1+git230720-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
tiffsourcewheezy4.0.2-6+deb7u16DLA-1093-1
tiffsourcejessie4.0.3-12.3+deb8u5DSA-4100-1
tiffsourcestretch4.0.8-2+deb9u2DSA-4100-1
tiffsource(unstable)4.0.8-5873879
tiff3sourcewheezy(not affected)
tiff3source(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

[wheezy] - tiff3 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2728
Fixed by: https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/b6af137bf9ef852f1a48a50a5afb88f9e9da01cc

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