PT-2017-15134 · Libtiff+2 · Libtiff+2

Published 2017-12-29 · Updated 2026-03-31 · CVE-2017-17973

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions LibTIFF version 4.0.8

Description The issue is related to a heap-based use-after-free in the t2p writeproc function in tiff2pdf.c. There is a report of inability to reproduce this issue from a third-party source.

Recommendations For LibTIFF version 4.0.8, consider disabling the t2p writeproc function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-17973

ECHO-DADF-6239-1823

SUSE-SU-2018:1179-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1180-1

SUSE-SU-2018_1180-1

Affected Products

Debian

Libtiff

Suse

References · 42

• 🔥 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2769 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2017-17973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:1179-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17973 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:1180-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17973 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17973 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1011107 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/102331 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/960341 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9536 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1530912 · Note