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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-3658: Out-of-bounds Read

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-3658: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/03/2016
Created
10/02/2024
Added
10/01/2024
Modified
10/01/2024

Description

The TIFFWriteDirectoryTagLongLong8Array function in tif_dirwrite.c in the tiffset tool in LibTIFF 4.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via vectors involving the ma variable.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-tiff

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