Improper Initialization Affecting libtiff package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.14% (50th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS6-LIBTIFF-1991861
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 11 Jul 2017
Introduced: 11 Jul 2017
CVE-2017-9937 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.
In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a memory malloc failure in tif_jbig.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to an abort resulting in a remote denial of service attack.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99304
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9937
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2707
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772@%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E