vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2016-5875)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 12, 2018
Added
Feb 2, 2026
Modified
Feb 2, 2026

Description

There is a heap-based buffer overflow on libtiff/tif_pixarlog.c. The vulnerability allows an attacker to control the size of the allocated heap-buffer while independently controlling the data to be written to the buffer with no restrictions on the size of the written data.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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