CVE-2017-12944
N/A
Published: August 18, 2017 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:04 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLibTIFF
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (4)
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: [email protected]
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2725Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4100Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-770
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