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CVE-2017-17942

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-12-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function PackBitsEncode in tif_packbits.c.

Affected products

• libtiff: 4.0.9

References

• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2767
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102312
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2767
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102312

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