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.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.5
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.74

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (USN-3606-1) libtiff5_4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9_i386.debLinux
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (USN-3606-1) libtiff5_4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9_amd64.debLinux
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (USN-3606-1) libtiff5_4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4_i386.debLinux
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (USN-3606-1) libtiff5_4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4_amd64.debLinux
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (USN-3606-1) libtiff5_4.0.8-5ubuntu0.1_i386.debLinux
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (USN-3606-1) libtiff5_4.0.8-5ubuntu0.1_amd64.debLinux
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (USN-3606-1) libtiff-tools_4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9_i386.debLinux
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (USN-3606-1) libtiff-tools_4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9_amd64.debLinux
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (USN-3606-1) libtiff-tools_4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4_i386.debLinux
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (USN-3606-1) libtiff-tools_4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4_amd64.debLinux
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (USN-3606-1) libtiff-tools_4.0.8-5ubuntu0.1_i386.debLinux
Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (USN-3606-1) libtiff-tools_4.0.8-5ubuntu0.1_amd64.debLinux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234