CVE-2017-9403

MEDIUM

LibTIFF 4.0.7 - Denial of Service via Memory Leak in TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array in tif_dirread.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-27
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2689
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3903

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0051
EPSS Percentile 66.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-772
Status published
Products (6)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
libtiff/libtiff 4.0.7
Published Jun 02, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026