CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-16232

Low
Published: —Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

LibTIFF 4.0.8 has multiple memory leak vulnerabilities, which allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by tif_open.c, tif_lzw.c, and tif_aux.c. NOTE: Third parties were unable to reproduce the issue.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exhaust memory and crash services that process TIFF files, causing application unavailability.

Recommendation

Update LibTIFF to the latest version and restrict processing of untrusted TIFF files in critical services.

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Original NVD description (English source)

LibTIFF 4.0.8 has multiple memory leak vulnerabilities, which allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by tif_open.c, tif_lzw.c, and tif_aux.c. NOTE: Third parties were unable to reproduce the issue

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