Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tiff  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-TIFF-405267
  • published29 Dec 2017
  • disclosed29 Dec 2017

Introduced: 29 Dec 2017

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tiff package and not the tiff package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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