# CVE-2017-9117: In LibTIFF 4.0.6 and possibly other versions, the program processes BMP images without verifying that biWidth and biHeight in the bitmap-inf

- Severity: CVSS 4.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-05-21 · Updated: 2025-01-07

## Affected

- LibTIFF: 4.0.6

## 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).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on LibTIFF, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98581
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2690
- https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/89

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