CVE-2017-12944

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-770

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.

Affected products

libtiff: 4.0.8

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2725
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4100
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2725
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4100

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