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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-17942

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

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1 Nov 2026, 07:06 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-17942

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 Dec 2017, 06:29 UTC

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

osv:CVE-2017-17942
Complete source record
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