Memory Leak Affecting libtiff package, versions [,4.0.8]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.75% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBTIFF-2327429
  • published29 Dec 2021
  • disclosed26 Jun 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9936  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libtiff.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak. In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a memory leak in tif_jbig.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a memory leak resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

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