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CVE-2017-9147 json

LibTIFF 4.0.7 has an invalid read in the _TIFFVGetField function in tif_dir.c, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of serv…

published 2017-05-22 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18085

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.0%
EPSS 7.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

LibTIFF 4.0.7 has an invalid read in the _TIFFVGetField function in tif_dir.c, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted TIFF file.

Patch / fix

  • tiff Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.0.8-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9147

  • tiff Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9147

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 3.8.2-141.169.22.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:3879-1

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-2017-9147 updated cvss 3.3

libtiff: Out of bounds read in _TIFFVGetField

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qt, opencv, qt-x11, libtiff, qt-odbc, qt-demos, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qt, libgs, opencv, qt-x11, libtiff, qt-odbc, +18 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-42301)

Exploit prediction

7.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-42301 LibTIFF - '_TIFFVGetField (tiffsplit)' Out-of-Bounds Read dos, 2017-07-06

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

References

Sources

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