{"id":"CVE-2017-9117","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-9117","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:09:06.089Z","title":"In LibTIFF 4.0.6 and possibly other versions, the program processes BMP images without verifying that biWidth and biHeight in the bitmap-information header match the actual input, as demonstrated by a heap-based buffer over-read in bmp2tiff.","description":"In LibTIFF 4.0.6 and possibly other versions, the program processes BMP images without verifying that biWidth and biHeight in the bitmap-information header match the actual input, as demonstrated by a heap-based buffer over-read in bmp2tiff. NOTE: mentioning bmp2tiff does not imply that the activation point is in the bmp2tiff.c file (which was removed before the 4.0.7 release).","published":"2017-05-21T19:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:27:31.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["libtiff/libtiff","canonical/ubuntu linux"],"epss":{"score":0.0216,"percentile":0.82115,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2690","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98581","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/89","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2690","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98581","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9117","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}