CVE-2017-9937 in LibTIFF

Summary

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a memory malloc failure in tif_jbig.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to an abort resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

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• Reservation: 06/26/2017
• Disclosure: 06/26/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-102820 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.9
• EPSS: 0.00540
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9937
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9937
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-9937/