CVE-2017-6314 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-6314?

CVE-2017-6314 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 10 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The make_available_at_least function in io-tiff.c in gdk-pixbuf allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a large TIFF file.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6314?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Gnome Gdk-Pixbuf.

How do I fix CVE-2017-6314?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-6314 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6314 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2017-6314, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6314, GHSA-c8q7-3fq2-cvvg, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6314.