vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2016-5318)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 20, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability was reported in thumbnail's _TIFFVGetField() function. Memory corruption can be triggered when handling maliciously crafted tiff file causing application to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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