CVE-2017-9403 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Libtiff

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective LifetimeCWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime10 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 23.46%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Debian TiffCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 2
Latest updateMay 13

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array in tif_dirread.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDlibtiff/libtiff4.0.7
▶debiandebian/tiff< tiff 4.0.8-1 (bookworm)

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-f8pf-f798-489q: In LibTIFF 4↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-9403: In LibTIFF 4↗2017-06-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
LibTIFF vulnerabilities↗2018-03-20
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Red Hat
libtiff: Memory leak in TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array↗2017-04-20
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Debian
CVE-2017-9403: tiff - In LibTIFF 4.0.7, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function TIFFRead...↗2017
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9403 CVE-2017-9404 libtiff: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-06-05
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9403 CVE-2017-9404 mingw-libtiff: various flaws [epel-7]↗2017-06-05
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9403 CVE-2017-9404 mingw-libtiff: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-06-05
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9403 libtiff: Memory leak in TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array↗2017-06-05
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