Buffer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2016-9539

 

Buffer overflow in LibTIFF - CVE-2016-9539

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU40037
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9539
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

LibTIFF

How to mitigate CVE-2016-9539

Install update from vendor's website.


External References

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