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CVE-2017-12944
5
MEDIUMCVSS v2
Published
August 18, 2017
Affected
4 projects
Assigned by
MITRE
Severity scale
010
Description
The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read.c in LibTIFF 4.0.8 mishandles memory allocation for short files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (allocation failure and application crash) in the TIFFFetchStripThing function in tif_dirread.c during a tiff2pdf invocation.
vadz/libtiff
GitHub
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