CVE-2013-4244

critical

Description

The LZW decompressor in the gif2tiff tool in libtiff 4.0.3 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted GIF image.

References

https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/ce6841d9e41d621ba23cf18b190ee6a23b2cc833

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996468

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0223.html

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2452

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-09-28

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical