CVE-2017-17973

high

Published 2017-12-29 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

6.8

VIR risk

8.8

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.8, there is a heap-based use-after-free in the t2p_writeproc function in tiff2pdf.c. NOTE: there is a third-party report of inability to reproduce this issue

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17973.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
libtiff	libtiff	`4.0.8`

References

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2769
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102331
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074318
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1530912
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17973.html

CWEs

CWE-416

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.