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CVE-2017-9937

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-06-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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

Affected products

• libtiff: through 4.0.8

References

• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2707
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99304
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2707
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99304
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

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