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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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