CVE-2017-17942

Publication date 28 December 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.9, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function PackBitsEncode in tif_packbits.c.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored see notes, was needed
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored see notes, was needed

Notes

mdeslaur

probably a dupe of CVE-2016-5319 as of 2021-02-24, no upstream fix

ccdm94

this CVE is considered by upstream as a duplicate of CVE-2016-5319, as per information on issue 2767 of its bugzilla. This has been marked by upstream as "won't fix# since bmp2tiff has been removed from libtiff starting on version 4.0.7. Therefore, there is no patch available for versions 4.0.6 and earlier.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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