CVE-2017-7599

Publication date 9 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

LibTIFF 4.0.7 has an "outside the range of representable values of type short" 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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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tiff 17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.8
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

this will not be fixed in precise/esm

Patch details

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Package Patch details
tiff

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3602-1
    • LibTIFF vulnerabilities
    • 20 March 2018

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