CVE-2017-12944

7.5 highEPSS 2.7%

High (7.5) in libtiff libtiff. EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-770
Published: 2017-08-18
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

libtiff:libtiff

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2725
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4100
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2725

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