Information Exposure Affecting libtiff package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.07% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-LIBTIFF-1978563
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed1 Nov 2017

Introduced: 1 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16232  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 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:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

LibTIFF 4.0.8 has multiple memory leak vulnerabilities, which allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by tif_open.c, tif_lzw.c, and tif_aux.c. NOTE: Third parties were unable to reproduce the issue