Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2017-10688 json

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c.

published 2017-06-29 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-2335

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.4%
EPSS 7.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Patch / fix

  • tiff Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.0.8-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10688

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

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-10688

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 Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +15 more 4.0.8-r1
  • tiff Alpine 3.6, Alpine 3.5, Alpine 3.4 +1 more 4.0.8-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-10688

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

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-2017-10688 updated cvss 3.3

libtiff: Assertion abort in the TIFFWriteDirectoryTagCheckedLong8Array function

  • 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

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-42299)

Exploit prediction

7.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-42299 LibTIFF - 'tif_dirwrite.c' Denial of Service dos, 2017-07-06

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

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.