CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-12944

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in LibTIFF 4.0.8 mishandles memory allocation for short files, potentially leading to application crashes during tiff2pdf invocation.

Risk Assessment

Remote attackers can cause denial of service by exploiting memory management issues, affecting application availability.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update LibTIFF to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.

Other vulnerabilities in LibTIFF 4.0.8

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS