CVE-2017-5225

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

LibTIFF version 4.0.7 is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in the tools/tiffcp resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted BitsPerSample value.

Affected products

libtiff: 4.0.7

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2656
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2657
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3844
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95413
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037911
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/5c080298d59efa53264d7248bbe3a04660db6ef7
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-27
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2656
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2657
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3844
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95413
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037911

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