CVE-2017-5849

Publication date 15 March 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

tiffttopnm in netpbm 10.47.63 does not properly use the libtiff TIFFRGBAImageGet function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and write) via a crafted tiff image file, related to transposing width and height values.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
netpbm-free	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

Debian and Ubuntu use a netpbm fork which does not contain the issue. See here: http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2654#c8

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H