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CVE-2017-16232

Published: 21 March 2019

** DISPUTED ** LibTIFF 4.0.8 has multiple memory leak vulnerabilities, which allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by tif_open.c, tif_lzw.c, and tif_aux.c. NOTE: Third parties were unable to reproduce the issue.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
fix only solves memory leak, but not high memory usage
this CVE was disputed, marking as ignored

Priority

Negligible

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
tiff
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Ignored
(end of life)
bionic Ignored

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored

trusty Ignored

upstream Needs triage

xenial Ignored

zesty Ignored
(end of life)
Patches:
upstream: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/commit/25f9ffa56548c1846c4a1f19308b7f561f7b1ab0

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H