Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.29% (69th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS6-LIBTIFFDEVEL-1982356
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 28 Dec 2017
Introduced: 28 Dec 2017
CVE-2017-17942 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:6 libtiff-devel.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-devel package and not the libtiff-devel package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.
In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function PackBitsEncode in tif_packbits.c.