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CVE-2017-11613 json

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a denial of service vulnerability in the TIFFOpen function.

published 2017-07-26 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-3225

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a denial of service vulnerability in the TIFFOpen function. A crafted input will lead to a denial of service attack. During the TIFFOpen process, td_imagelength is not checked. The value of td_imagelength can be directly controlled by an input file. In the ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip function, the _TIFFCheckMalloc function is called based on td_imagelength. If we set the value of td_imagelength close to the amount of system memory, it will hang the system or trigger the OOM killer.

Patch / fix

  • tiff Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.0.9-5

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11613

  • tiff Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.9
  • tiff Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11613

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • tiff SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 3.8.2-141.169.19.1
  • tiff SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 +1 more 4.0.9-44.24.1
  • tiff SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 4.0.9-5.9.1
  • tiff SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 3.8.2-141.169.9.1
  • tiff SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 +1 more 4.0.9-44.15.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3391-1SUSE-SU-2018:3289-1SUSE-SU-2018:1889-1SUSE-SU-2018:1835-1SUSE-SU-2018:1826-1

  • tiff openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.3.0-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11461-1

  • tiff Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +14 more 4.0.9-r6
  • tiff Alpine 3.7, Alpine 3.6, Alpine 3.5 4.0.9-r5

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-11613

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libtiff Arch Linux 4.0.10-1
  • lib32-libtiff Arch Linux 4.0.10-1

arch linux advisories AVG-790AVG-791

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-11613 updated cvss 3.3

libtiff: Memory leak via corrupt td_imagelength in TIFFOpen function

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libtiff, libtiff-tools, compat-libtiff3
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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