Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.3-12.3+deb8u5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.09% (85th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-TIFF-405671
- published 18 Aug 2017
- disclosed 18 Aug 2017
Introduced: 18 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-12944 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8
tiff
to version 4.0.3-12.3+deb8u5 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff
package and not the tiff
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.