CVE-2014-8129

Publication date 31 December 2014

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	14.10 utopic	Fixed 4.0.3-10ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.2
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 3.9.5-2ubuntu1.7
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.15

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: cd82b52 Upstream: 662f744

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2553-1
LibTIFF vulnerabilities
31 March 2015