CVE-2019-17546 — tif_getimage
tif_getimage.c in LibTIFF through 4.0.10, as used in GDAL through 3.0.1 and other products, has an integer overflow that potentially causes a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted RGBA image, related to a "Negative-size-param" condition.
Published
2019-10-14T01:07:02.000Z
Last modified
2024-12-20T13:06:38.532Z
01What is this vulnerability?
tif_getimage.c in LibTIFF through 4.0.10, as used in GDAL through 3.0.1 and other products, has an integer overflow that potentially causes a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted RGBA image, related to a "Negative-size-param" condition.
02Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|
| n | a / n/a | n/a |
03Active exploitation status
Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.
04Recommended remediation
- Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
- Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
- Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.
05Technical details
For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.
06Detection signatures
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07Related CVEs
No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.
08Timeline
- Published: 2019-10-14T01:07:02.000Z
- Last modified: 2024-12-20T13:06:38.532Z
09References
- github.com — https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/21674033ee246f698887604c7af7ba1962a40ddf
- gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/4bb584a35f87af42d6cf09d15e9ce8909a8391…
- bugs.chromium.org — https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16443
- lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00027.html
- seclists.org — https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/32
- www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4608
- lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro…
- lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro…
- security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-25
- lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00020.html
- www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4670
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