CVE-2017-12944

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12944
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12944.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12944
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-08-18T15:29:00.247Z
Modified
2026-04-11T16:52:01.797986Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tifread.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 tifdirread.c during a tiff2pdf invocation.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/vadz/libtiff

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
4a25fa0efc03a4e71740efc748c24b93152b1807
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:4.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.0.8"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
Pre360
Release-
Release-3-7-0
Release-v3-5-
Release-v3-5-4
Release-v3-5-5
Release-v3-5-7
Release-v3-6-0
Release-v3-6-0beta2
Release-v3-6-1
Release-v3-7-0-alpha
Release-v3-7-0beta
Release-v3-7-0beta2
Release-v3-7-1
Release-v3-7-2
Release-v3-7-3
Release-v3-7-4
Release-v3-8-0
Release-v3-8-1
Release-v3-8-2
Release-v4-0-0
Release-v4-0-0alpha
Release-v4-0-0alpha4
Release-v4-0-0alpha5
Release-v4-0-0alpha6
Release-v4-0-0beta7
Release-v4-0-1
Release-v4-0-2
Release-v4-0-3
Release-v4-0-4
Release-v4-0-4beta
Release-v4-0-5
Release-v4-0-6
Release-v4-0-7
Release-v4-0-8

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12944.json"