vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9453: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 27, 2017
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

The t2p_readwrite_pdf_image_tile function in LibTIFF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a JPEG file with a TIFFTAG_JPEGTABLES of length one.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-tiff
Title
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