Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libtiff-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • 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)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

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.

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