CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3621
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-10-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The LZWEncode function in tif_lzw.c in the bmp2tiff tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier, when the "-c lzw" option is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) via a crafted BMP image.
Affected configurations
• libtiff libtiff (<= 4.0.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2565 Issue Tracking
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/07/3 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035508 www.securitytracker.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16 security.gentoo.org
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2565 Issue Tracking
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/07/3 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035508 www.securitytracker.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16 security.gentoo.org