Improper Initialization Affecting libtiff-tools package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBTIFFTOOLS-1377789
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed11 Jul 2017
Introduced: 11 Jul 2017
CVE-2017-9937 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libtiff-tools.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libtiff-tools package and not the libtiff-tools package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a memory malloc failure in tif_jbig.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to an abort resulting in a remote denial of service attack.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99304
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9937
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2707
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772@%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E