Resource Exhaustion Affecting libtiff package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.09% (85th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS6-LIBTIFF-1978194
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 6 Aug 2017
Introduced: 6 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-12944 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:6
libtiff
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff
package and not the libtiff
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:6
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.