Memory Allocation Vulnerability in LibTIFF 4.0.8

CVE-2017-12944 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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