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CVE-2017-10688 (GCVE-0-2017-10688)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-29 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:41
VLAI
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.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42299/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2712 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3903 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2017-06-29 00:00
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