cve/2017/CVE-2017-12944.md

### [CVE-2017-12944](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12944)
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### Description

The TIFFReadDirEntryArray function in tif_read.c in LibTIFF 4.0.8 mishandles memory allocation for short files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (allocation failure and application crash) in the TIFFFetchStripThing function in tif_dirread.c during a tiff2pdf invocation.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3606-1/

#### Github
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