CVE-2014-8129

Publication date 31 December 2014

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

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

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

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · 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

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