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Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions *

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.29% (69th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high
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Red Hat
4.4 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-LIBTIFFDEVEL-1369954
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 28 Dec 2017
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Introduced: 28 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17942 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-125 Open this link in a new tab

How 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.

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function PackBitsEncode in tif_packbits.c.