CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-12944
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read.c in LibTIFF 4.0.8 mishandles memory allocation for short files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (allocation failure and application crash) in the TIFFFetchStripThing function in tif_dirread.c during a tiff2pdf invocation.
Affected configurations
• libtiff libtiff 4.0.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2725 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4100 www.debian.org
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2725 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4100 www.debian.org