What is CVE-2017-9815?

CVE-2017-9815 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libtiff, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-06-22.

How severe is CVE-2017-9815?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Libtiff

CVE-2017-9815

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, the TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array function in libtiff/tif_dirread.c mishandles a malloc operation, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak within the function _TIFFmalloc in tif_unix.c) via a crafted file.

EPSS: 0.016 (73.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Libtiff — versions 4.0.7
Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 14.04, 16.04
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9815?: CVE-2017-9815 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libtiff, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-06-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-9815?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.