CVE-2017-12944

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CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

EPSS

3%p85

Published

Aug 18, 2017 (Aug 18, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: libtiff
Products: libtiff
Weakness: CWE-770
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (2.7%)

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