CVE-2017-9936: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 7.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a memory leak in tif_jbig.c. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a memory leak resulting in a remote denial of service attack.

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 4.0.8 only

Published 2017-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.