Uninitialized Memory Access Vulnerability in LibTIFF's putcontig8bitYCbCr21tile and NeXTDecode Functions

Uninitialized Memory Access Vulnerability in LibTIFF's putcontig8bitYCbCr21tile and NeXTDecode Functions

CVE-2014-9655 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The (1) putcontig8bitYCbCr21tile function in tif_getimage.c or (2) NeXTDecode function in tif_next.c in LibTIFF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access) via a crafted TIFF image, as demonstrated by libtiff-cvs-1.tif and libtiff-cvs-2.tif.

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