High
Security advisory
LibTIFF 4.0.8 has multiple memory leak vulnerabilities, which allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by tif_open.c, tif_lzw.c, and tif_aux.c. NOTE: Third parties were unable to reproduce the issue
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-16232
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:50 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
LibTIFF 4.0.8 has multiple memory leak vulnerabilities, which allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by tif_open.c, tif_lzw.c, and tif_aux.c. NOTE: Third parties were unable to reproduce the issue
osv:CVE-2017-16232
Complete source record
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