vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-9403: libTIFF: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 2, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array in tif_dirread.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-tiff
Title
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