Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libtiff  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
2.16% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBTIFF-10077431
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed21 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 May 2017

CVE-2017-9117  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. In LibTIFF 4.0.7, the program processes BMP images without verifying that biWidth and biHeight in the bitmap-information header match the actual input, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read in bmp2tiff.