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CVE-2017-9815

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, the TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array function in libtiff/tif_dirread.c mishandles a malloc operation, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak within the function _TIFFmalloc in tif_unix.c) via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04
• libtiff: 4.0.7

References

• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2682
• http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/06/libtiffmemory-leak-in-tiffmalloc.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99235
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2682
• http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.jp/2017/06/libtiffmemory-leak-in-tiffmalloc.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99235
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/

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