Memory leak in LibTIFF - CVE-2017-9404

 

Memory leak in LibTIFF - CVE-2017-9404

Published: July 11, 2017 / Updated: July 13, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7405
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9404
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition.

The weakness exits due to memory leak in the function OJPEGReadHeaderInfoSecTablesQTable in tif_ojpeg.c. A remote attacker can send specially crafted TIFF file and cause the application to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

Affected software

LibTIFF
Debian Linux
Fedora
mingw-libtiff

How to mitigate CVE-2017-9404

Update to version 4.0.8-3.

mingw-libtiff - update to 4.0.8-1.fc26

External References

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