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CVE-2017-10688

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—💥 Exploit

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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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💥 Public exploits

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Affected technologies (1)

Libtiff — Libtiff

CWEs

References

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