CVE-2017-16232
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.1%
Description
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
How to fix CVE-2017-16232
To remediate CVE-2017-16232, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/tiff—upgrade to 4.0.9-r0 or later
- Debian/tiff—no fix listed
Is CVE-2017-16232 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.0.9-r0
- from 0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |