CVE-2017-12944 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Libtiff

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or ThrottlingCWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption11 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 27.05%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Debian TiffLibtiff
Timeline
PublishedAug 18
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDlibtiff/libtiff4.0.8
▶debiandebian/tiff< tiff 4.0.8-6 (bookworm)

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-r6g8-rrwj-46q5: The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-12944: The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read↗2017-08-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
LibTIFF vulnerabilities↗2018-03-26
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Ubuntu
LibTIFF vulnerabilities↗2018-03-20
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Red Hat
libtiff: Mishandled memory allocation for short files in the TIFFReadDirEntryArray function↗2017-08-06
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Debian
CVE-2017-12944: tiff - The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read.c in LibTIFF 4.0.8 mishandles mem...↗2017
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-12944 libtiff: Mishandled memory allocation for short files in the TIFFReadDirEntryArray function↗2017-08-31
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11335 CVE-2017-12944 CVE-2017-13726 CVE-2017-13727 CVE-2017-16232 mingw-libtiff: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-07-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11335 CVE-2017-12944 CVE-2017-13726 CVE-2017-13727 CVE-2017-16232 mingw-libtiff: various flaws [epel-7]↗2017-07-24
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11335 CVE-2017-12944 CVE-2017-13726 CVE-2017-13727 CVE-2017-16232 libtiff: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-07-24
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