CVE-2013-4243

Public on 2013-09-10
Modified on 2014-09-19
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the readgifimage function in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted height and width values in a GIF image.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 libtiff 2014-03-13 ALAS-2014-307 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 libtiff 2014-06-26 ALAS-2014-365 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2013-4243 Mitre: CVE-2013-4243