CVE-2017-12944

Description

The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read.c in LibTIFF 4.0.8 mishandles memory allocation for short files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (allocation failure and application crash) in the TIFFFetchStripThing function in tif_dirread.c during a tiff2pdf invocation.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4100

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2725

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3