Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tiff Open this link in a new tab
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EPSS
0.48% (76th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-TIFF-405267
- published 29 Dec 2017
- disclosed 29 Dec 2017
Introduced: 29 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-17973 Open this link in a new tabAmendment
The Ubuntu
security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff
package and not the tiff
package as distributed by Ubuntu
.
In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a heap-based use-after-free in the t2p_writeproc function in tiff2pdf.c. NOTE: there is a third-party report of inability to reproduce this issue
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-17973
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17973
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2769
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074318
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1530912
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102331