CVE-2017-12944

HIGH

LibTIFF 4.0.8 - Denial of Service via TIFFReadDirEntryArray Memory Allocation Failure

Title source: llm

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.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_confirm

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2725

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4100

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0074

EPSS Percentile 73.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-770

Status published

Products (1)

libtiff/libtiff 4.0.8

Published Aug 18, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026