Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting tiff package, versions <4.0.8-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.58% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-TIFF-405787
  • published26 Jun 2017
  • disclosed26 Jun 2017

Introduced: 26 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9936  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 tiff to version 4.0.8-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a memory leak in tif_jbig.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a memory leak resulting in a remote denial of service attack.