CVE-2016-10272

HIGH

LibTIFF 4.0.7 - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow via Crafted TIFF Image

Title source: llm

Description

LibTIFF 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "WRITE of size 2048" and libtiff/tif_next.c:64:9.

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/

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/vadz/libtiff/commit/9657bbe3cdce4aaa90e07d50c1c70ae52da0ba6a

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97197

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0049

EPSS Percentile 65.6%

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