CVE-2017-17973

Publication date 29 December 2017

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a heap-based use-after-free in the t2p_writeproc function in tiff2pdf.c. NOTE: there is a third-party report of inability to reproduce this issue

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Status

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

this issue was disputed, marking as ignored

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

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

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