Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU40037

Buffer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2016-9539

Published: November 22, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU40037

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9539

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: LibTIFF

Affected software:
LibTIFF

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

tools/tiffcrop.c in libtiff 4.0.6 has an out-of-bounds read in readContigTilesIntoBuffer(). Reported as MSVR 35092.

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