Resource Exhaustion Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBTIFFDEVEL-1364001
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 6 Aug 2017
Introduced: 6 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-12944 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7
libtiff-devel
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-devel
package and not the libtiff-devel
package as distributed by RHEL
.
See How to fix?
for RHEL:7
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.