CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-9448
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
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.
Affected configurations
• libtiff libtiff 4.0.6
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2593 Issue Tracking
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00017.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/15 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94420 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16 security.gentoo.org
- http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2593 Issue Tracking
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00017.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3762 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/18/15 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94420 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-16 security.gentoo.org