Out-of-bounds read in LibTIFF - CVE-2016-10270
Published: March 24, 2017 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32101
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10270
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in LibTIFF 4.0.7. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 8" and libtiff/tif_read.c:523:22.
Affected software
LibTIFF
tiff (Alpine package)
libtiff
SUSE Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
tiff (Alpine package)
libtiff
SUSE Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
How to mitigate CVE-2016-10270
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
tiff (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 4.0.7-r3, 4.0.8-r0
libtiff - addressed in versions 4.0.7-4.fc25, 4.0.7-4.fc26
libtiff - addressed in versions 4.0.7-4.fc25, 4.0.7-4.fc26