Use After Free Affecting libtiff-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Use After Free vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-LIBTIFFDEVEL-2877194
  • published1 Nov 2021
  • disclosed29 Dec 2017

Introduced: 29 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17973  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a heap-based use-after-free in the t2p_writeproc function in tiff2pdf.c. NOTE: there is a third-party report of inability to reproduce this issue