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CVE-2018-17000
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-13T16:29:01.263 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:45:11.540

Summary

A NULL pointer dereference in the function _TIFFmemcmp at tif_unix.c (called from TIFFWriteDirectoryTagTransferfunction) in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows an attacker to cause a denial-of-service through a crafted tiff file. This vulnerability can be triggered by the executable tiffcp.

Affected products

libtiff — libtiff

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References

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