CVE-2017-5849

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

tiffttopnm in netpbm 10.47.63 does not properly use the libtiff TIFFRGBAImageGet function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and write) via a crafted tiff image file, related to transposing width and height values.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 24, 25
netpbm: 10.47.63

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2654
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2655
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96011
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AF42A624FXVY3BYBHMAO6F2X7EJYHQE2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LDK3BDMKIQL2NQ3SJZXPBEN2LSOUSSEE/
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2654
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2655
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96011
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AF42A624FXVY3BYBHMAO6F2X7EJYHQE2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LDK3BDMKIQL2NQ3SJZXPBEN2LSOUSSEE/

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