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CVE-2017-9936

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a memory leak in tif_jbig.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a memory leak resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• libtiff: 4.0.8

References

• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2706
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3903
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99300
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42300/
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2706
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3903
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99300
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42300/

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