Out-of-bounds read in LibTIFF - CVE-2016-10271
Published: March 24, 2017 / Updated: May 21, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU39381
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-2016-10271
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 tools/tiffcrop.c in LibTIFF 4.0.7. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TIFF image, related to "READ of size 1" and libtiff/tif_fax3.c:413:13.
Affected software
LibTIFF
SUSE Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
libtiff
SUSE Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
libtiff
How to mitigate CVE-2016-10271
Install update from vendor's website.
libtiff - addressed in versions 4.0.7-4.fc25, 4.0.7-4.fc26