CVE-2017-9937
Published: 26 June 2017
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.
Priority
Negligible
CVSS 3 base score: 6.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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jbigkit Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) |
Deferred
(2018-03-22)
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| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Deferred
(2018-03-22)
|
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| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Deferred
(2018-03-22)
|
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| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |
Deferred
(2018-03-22)
|
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Deferred
(2018-03-22)
|
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| mdeslaur | reported in libtiff, but issue lies in jbigkit as of 2018-03-22, no fix available this is a DoS only and is caused by the fact that jbigkit handles failed memory allocations with abort(). (See checked_malloc()). Fixing this properly would likely require changing the library ABI. |