CVE-2017-17942 — Out-of-bounds Read in Libtiff

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read9 documents6 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 38.78%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Debian TiffLibtiff
Timeline
PublishedDec 28
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function PackBitsEncode in tif_packbits.c.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDlibtiff/libtiff4.0.9
▶debiandebian/tiff< tiff 4.0.6-3 (bookworm)

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-pcrj-6r6v-pxpg: In LibTIFF 4↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-17942: In LibTIFF 4↗2017-12-28
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in PackBitsEncode function in tif_packbits.c↗2017-12-28
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Debian
CVE-2017-17942: tiff - In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function PackBit...↗2017
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17942 libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in PackBitsEncode function in tif_packbits.c [fedora-all]↗2017-12-28
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17942 libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in PackBitsEncode function in tif_packbits.c↗2017-12-28
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17942 mingw-libtiff: libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in PackBitsEncode function in tif_packbits.c [fedora-all]↗2017-12-28
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17942 mingw-libtiff: libtiff: Heap-based buffer overflow in PackBitsEncode function in tif_packbits.c [epel-7]↗2017-12-28
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