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CVE-2017-7602 json

LibTIFF 4.0.7 has a signed integer overflow, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibl…

published 2017-04-09 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-16607

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

LibTIFF 4.0.7 has a signed integer overflow, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image.

Patch / fix

  • tiff Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.0.7-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7602

  • tiff Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.0.3-7ubuntu0.8
  • tiff Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.0.6-1ubuntu0.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7602

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • tiff SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 3.8.2-141.169.6.1
  • tiff SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 4.0.8-44.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:1472-1SUSE-SU-2017:2569-1

  • tiff openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.3.0-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11461-1

  • tiff Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +20 more 4.0.7-r2

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-7602

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libtiff Arch Linux 4.0.7-3
  • lib32-libtiff Arch Linux 4.0.7-3

arch linux advisories AVG-237AVG-817

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-7602 updated cvss 3.3

libtiff: Signed integer overflow in tif_read.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libtiff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libtiff, libtiff-tools, compat-libtiff3
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • blogs.gentoo.org https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/01/libtiff-multiple-ubsan-crashes referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.