Resource Exhaustion Affecting libtiff-static package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-LIBTIFFSTATIC-1366169
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed6 Aug 2017
Introduced: 6 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-12944 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 libtiff-static.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-static package and not the libtiff-static package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.
The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read.c in LibTIFF 4.0.8 mishandles memory allocation for short files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (allocation failure and application crash) in the TIFFFetchStripThing function in tif_dirread.c during a tiff2pdf invocation.