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CVE-2017-5563

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

LibTIFF version 4.0.7 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in tif_lzw.c resulting in DoS or code execution via a crafted bmp image to tools/bmp2tiff.

Affected products

• libtiff: 4.0.7

References

• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2664
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95705
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-27
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2664
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95705
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-27
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/

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