CVE-2014-8129

Public Exploit

Description

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by failure of tif_next.c to verify that the BitsPerSample value is 2, and the t2p_sample_lab_signed_to_unsigned function in tiff2pdf.c.

Category

8.8
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.82% Top 30%
Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory debian.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204941 third party advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1547.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2488 issue tracking exploit
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00002.html mailing list vendor advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/24/15 mailing list
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72352 vdb entry third party advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185815 issue tracking patch
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032760 vdb entry third party advisory
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2487 issue tracking exploit
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204942 third party advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00001.html mailing list vendor advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1546.html third party advisory vendor advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3273 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.conostix.com/pub/adv/CVE-2014-8129-LibTIFF-Out-of-bounds_Reads_and_Writes.txt third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-8129?
CVE-2014-8129 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-8129?
To fix CVE-2014-8129, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-8129 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2014-8129 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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