CVE-2014-8127

Name: CVE-2014-8127
Creator: NVD / NIST
Published: 2017-06-26T15:29:00.237+00:00
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Unknown

Last modified Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2014-8127 is a vulnerability of currently unknown severity. LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool..

Description

LibTIFF 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted TIFF image to the (1) checkInkNamesString function in tif_dir.c in the thumbnail tool, (2) compresscontig function in tiff2bw.c in the tiff2bw tool, (3) putcontig8bitCIELab function in tif_getimage.c in the tiff2rgba tool, LZWPreDecode function in tif_lzw.c in the (4) tiff2ps or (5) tiffdither tool, (6) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in the tiffmedian tool, or (7) TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Affected Software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Libtiff	Libtiff	4.0.3
Opensuse	Opensuse	13.1
Opensuse	Opensuse	13.2

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2484Issue Tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2485Issue Tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2486Issue Tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2496Issue Tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2497Issue Tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2500Issue Tracking
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00022.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1546.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1547.html
http://www.conostix.com/pub/adv/CVE-2014-8127-LibTIFF-Out-of-bounds_Reads.txtThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3273
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/24/15Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72323Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032760
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2484Issue Tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2485Issue Tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2486Issue Tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2496Issue Tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2497Issue Tracking
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2500Issue Tracking
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00022.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1546.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1547.html
http://www.conostix.com/pub/adv/CVE-2014-8127-LibTIFF-Out-of-bounds_Reads.txtThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3273
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/24/15Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72323Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032760
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16

Timeline

Published: Jun 26, 2017
Last Modified: Jun 17, 2026
Status: Modified

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Source: NVD / NIST