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CVE-2017-5849

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5849 describes an out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability in the tiffttopnm utility within Netpbm 10.47.63, affecting Fedora and Netpbm Project distributions. This flaw, caused by improper use of libtiff's TIFFRGBAImageGet function with transposed width and height values, allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service via a specially crafted TIFF image. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to exploit, leading to high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.47.63CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netpbm_project:netpbm:10.47.63:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0193 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: netpbm
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: netpbm

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-5849Low

netpbm: Calls TIFFRGBA with width and height parameters switched

Jan 31, 2017

References

bugzilla.maptools.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
bugzilla.maptools.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AF42A624FXVY3BYBHMAO6F2X7EJYHQE2
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LDK3BDMKIQL2NQ3SJZXPBEN2LSOUSSEE
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/2
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/96011