CVE-2017-16232

Publication date 21 March 2019

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tiff	19.04 disco	Ignored
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

mdeslaur

fix only solves memory leak, but not high memory usage this CVE was disputed, marking as ignored

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
tiff	Upstream: 25f9ffa

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H