CVE-2013-4244 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2452 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0223.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996468 https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/ce6841d9e41d621ba23cf18b190ee6a23b2cc833