Security advisory

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  "id": "6aec36cdbfe8ae5c9b1304ae71de256af51b8ea35d868fe5f9d40c28277ba930",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12944",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-12944",
    "summary": "The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read.c in LibTIFF 4.0.8 mishandles memory allocation for short files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (allocation failure and application crash) in the TIFFFetchStripThing function in tif_dirread.c during a tiff2pdf invocation.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-12944",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-12944",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-12944"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/vadz/libtiff",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "4a25fa0efc03a4e71740efc748c24b93152b1807"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "4a25fa0efc03a4e71740efc748c24b93152b1807"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:4.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.0.8"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.0.8"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "4.0.8",
            "Release-v4-0-8"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12944.json"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
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                  "introduced": "84e1f1b66df4c91951cfc17556d5228d0d3e5c9f"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "84e1f1b66df4c91951cfc17556d5228d0d3e5c9f"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:4.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.0.8"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.0.8"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "4.0.8",
            "v4.0.8"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12944.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:27.335395208Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4100"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-12944",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431814,
  "published_at": "2017-08-18T15:29:00.247+00:00"
}