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CVE-2017-17973

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-12-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a heap-based use-after-free in the t2p_writeproc function in tiff2pdf.c. NOTE: there is a third-party report of inability to reproduce this issue

Affected products

• libtiff: 4.0.8

References

• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2769
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102331
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074318
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1530912
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2769
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102331
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074318
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1530912

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