Improper Input Validation Affecting libtiff package, versions [,4.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.75% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBTIFF-10077430
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed26 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11613  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libtiff to version 4.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a denial of service vulnerability in the TIFFOpen function. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack. During the TIFFOpen process, td_imagelength is not checked. The value of td_imagelength can be directly controlled by an input file. In the ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip function, the _TIFFCheckMalloc function is called based on td_imagelength. If we set the value of td_imagelength close to the amount of system memory, it will hang the system or trigger the OOM killer.

CVSS Base Scores

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