CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-9937

Low
Published: —Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a memory malloc failure in tif_jbig.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to an abort resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

Risk Assessment

A remote attacker could cause a denial of service in an application processing TIFF files, causing it to crash.

Recommendation

Update the LibTIFF library to a version containing the fix for this flaw.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a memory malloc failure in tif_jbig.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to an abort resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

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