7.5
HIGH
CVE-2024-6716
Apache libtiff Memory Allocation DoS
Description

Rejected reason: Invalid security issue.

INFO

Published Date :

July 15, 2024, 3:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Sept. 4, 2024, 2:15 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2024-6716 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

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No affected product recoded yet

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Toolkit for k8s administrators/developers.

Dockerfile Shell

Updated: 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Born at : July 10, 2022, 10:30 p.m. This repo has been linked 33 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2024-6716 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-6716 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Rejected by [email protected]

    Sep. 04, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Translated by [email protected]

    Sep. 04, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Translation Title: libtiff Description: Se encontró una falla en libtiff. Esta falla permite a un atacante crear un archivo tiff manipulado, lo que obliga a libtiff a asignar memoria indefinidamente. Este problema puede provocar una denegación de servicio del sistema que consume libtiff debido a la falta de memoria.
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 04, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Description A flaw was found in the libtiff library. An out-of-memory issue in the TIFFReadEncodedStrip function can be triggered when processing a crafted tiff file, allowing attackers to perform memory allocation of arbitrary sizes, resulting in a denial of service. Rejected reason: Invalid security issue.
    Removed Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6716
    Removed Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297636
    Removed Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/620
    Removed CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-400
    Removed CVSS V3.1 Red Hat, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 17, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Description A flaw was found in libtiff. This flaw allows an attacker to create a crafted tiff file, forcing libtiff to allocate memory indefinitely. This issue can result in a denial of service of the system consuming libtiff due to memory starvation. A flaw was found in the libtiff library. An out-of-memory issue in the TIFFReadEncodedStrip function can be triggered when processing a crafted tiff file, allowing attackers to perform memory allocation of arbitrary sizes, resulting in a denial of service.
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 16, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CVSS V3.1 Red Hat, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
    Added CVSS V3.1 Red Hat, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 15, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/620 [No types assigned]
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jul. 15, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A flaw was found in libtiff. This flaw allows an attacker to create a crafted tiff file, forcing libtiff to allocate memory indefinitely. This issue can result in a denial of service of the system consuming libtiff due to memory starvation.
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6716 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297636 [No types assigned]
    Added CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-400
    Added CVSS V3.1 Red Hat, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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