CVE-2017-12944: Libtiff

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read.c in LibTIFF 4.0.8 mishandles memory allocation for short files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (allocation failure and application crash) in the TIFFFetchStripThing function in tif_dirread.c during a tiff2pdf invocation.

Affected products

• Libtiff Libtiff: version 4.0.8 only

Published 2017-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.