CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8331
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-10-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/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
Description
An exploitable remote code execution vulnerability exists in the handling of TIFF images in LibTIFF version 4.0.6. A crafted TIFF document can lead to a type confusion vulnerability resulting in remote code execution. This vulnerability can be triggered via a TIFF file delivered to the application using LibTIFF's tag extension functionality.
Affected configurations
• libtiff libtiff 4.0.6
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93898 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0190/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93898 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0190/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16 security.gentoo.org