vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2016-3990)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 21, 2016
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in libtiff v4.0.6 when using tiffcp command to handle malicious tiff file. The vulnerability exists in the function horizontalDifference8(). An attacker could control the head data of next heap which contains pre_size field and size filed to result in denial of service or arbitrary code execution.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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