Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting tiff package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.74% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-TIFF-11770576
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed21 Mar 2019

Introduced: 21 Mar 2019

CVE-2017-16232  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:14 tiff.

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:14 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