CVE-2016-10271

HIGH

LibTIFF 4.0.7 - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in tiffcrop

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

tools/tiffcrop.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 1" and libtiff/tif_fax3.c:413:13.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/01/01/libtiff-multiple-heap-based-buffer-overflow/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97199
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/9657bbe3cdce4aaa90e07d50c1c70ae52da0ba6a

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0042
EPSS Percentile 62.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
libtiff/libtiff 4.0.7
Published Mar 24, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026