High
Security advisory
tif_dirread.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 has an "outside the range of representable values of type float" undefined behavior issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-7597
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
tif_dirread.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 has an "outside the range of representable values of type float" undefined behavior issue, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image.
osv:CVE-2017-7597
Complete source record
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