CVE-2017-16232

mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.054 · 93 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

5.43% (93rd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

7 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

LibTIFF 4.0.8 has multiple memory leak vulnerabilities, which allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption), as demonstrated by tif_open.c, tif_lzw.c, and tif_aux.c. NOTE: Third parties were unable to reproduce the issue

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-772USprimary

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
libtiff libtiff= 4.0.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:libtiff:libtiff:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse leap= 42.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse leap= 42.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse linux enterprise desktop= 12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse linux enterprise server= 12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
suse linux enterprise software development kit= 12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-03-21modified 2026-06-17

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references (34)

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