CVE-2016-9448

HIGH

LibTiff 4.0.6 - Denial of Service via TIFFFetchNormalTag NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm

Description

The TIFFFetchNormalTag function in LibTiff 4.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) by setting the tags TIFF_SETGET_C16ASCII or TIFF_SETGET_C32_ASCII to values that access 0-byte arrays. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-9297.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00017.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94420

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/15

Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2593

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0208

EPSS Percentile 84.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (2)

libtiff/libtiff 4.0.6

opensuse/opensuse 13.2

Published Jan 27, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026