vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-12944: tiff -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 18, 2017
Added
Jan 30, 2018
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-tiff
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