CVE-2017-9404: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function OJPEGReadHeaderInfoSecTablesQTable in tif_ojpeg.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Libtiff Libtiff: version 4.0.7 only

Published 2017-06-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.